And of course, surpassed the collective brainpower of all previous philosophers without managing to learn how to capitalize.
Ok - dualism is the idea that the mental and the physical are different things, distantly removed from eachother. This is a necessary viewpoint if you are going to say that free will is anything more than an illusion.
Well, why are you a "free will believer", if you acknowledge that the mind is part of a deterministic system?
My point is that if it's not directly apparent that a system is deterministic you cannot assume that it is not actually deterministic. Once again, you agree with and verify a point that goes against your proclaimed status as a "free will believer," unless you'd like to dazzle me with another one of those revelations of yours.
Theoretically, yes. Practically, no. The human body is too complex a system to understand more than generally - thus specific events are impossible to predict. Famous paradox resolved.
Nope. I'm illiterate.
That's generally impossible. That's the point of axiomatic logic - to reduce one's assumptions to the fewest and most basic that they can be. It's impossible to prove nearly anything without making assumptions.
Besides, you've done a pretty good job proving that yourself throughout your most recent post, where you agree and seem to validate my points.
I don't see the paradox being irresolvable - unless you mean to say that our lack of knowledge of something means that it doesn't exist. There is no theoretical paradox, only a computational limitation on how far we can demonstrate the theoretical [i]ability[/i] to make predictions about deterministic systems.
The nature of consciousness in general doesn’t puzzle me nearly as the state of yours, PoR.
Free will is catching a bug ,that is you exersizing your free will to do so, but, you stop the bugs free will from doing its buggy thing while it is in your hand yet, it still can exersise the free will of either wriggling its legs, or biting you or just not moving. Every time you turn a corner in life a free will is removed or stopped but others come into existence. Is choice or responsibility free will? They are parts of it. Can free will put you on another planet? Possibly if your will is strong enough and focused enough it could. Free will , Will power, Willing, Willful, It is that part of us that makes our world what we percieve it to be or want it to be. If my free will invades and harms anothers free will It is their free will that will determine the next move. It is like a game where, if this happens then what is the next sequence after that. or a Kaliediescope perhaps. A comet carries a type of will also but, its will is governed by physical contacts that it has not mental contacts. Is mental will any less real then physical will? not at all. In fact both carry much the same components and requirements.
so you had the free will to create both yourself and the bug so that your paths would cross at somepoint did you? Then are we to all asume that you are the devine creator por and the others bang on about day and night.
To all those in this thread:
Because of the multiplication factor, There are only 2 possible situations; either you control the universe or the universe controls you, just which one is it? post answers and reasons, then maybee we can all come to some agreement as to which one it is and why.