it's necessary to assume something like that as the "agent", but no one really understands it. — Metaphysician Undercover
Have you any reason to think it more than a bad translation?I think that our language developed an approach to action based around our own agency, and finds itself unable to easily present the undirected agency of evolution. — Banno
Evolution? God did it. Creation? God did it. The cat has been sick? God did it. — Banno
I think that our language developed an approach to action based around our own agency, and finds itself unable to easily present the undirected agency of evolution.
Have you any reason to think it more than a bad translation? — Banno
If our purposeful acts can be attributed to "agency", then why wouldn't we attribute the purposeful acts of other animals to "agency". What would support such a boundary between humans and others? — Metaphysician Undercover
If you agree that these activities are purposeful, then why wouldn't you agree that the result, evolution, is also purposeful? — Metaphysician Undercover
...evolution, is also purposeful — Metaphysician Undercover
Evolution is not an acting agent itself — Metaphysician Undercover
Everything in life is exactly how it is being experienced. There are no illusions. — Rich
Somehow you think this not a contradiction. — Banno
To the extent my opinion means anything, I have always been whole unimpressed by Einstein's philosophical musings and as far as science is concerned, his refusal to accept the probabilistic nature of quantum theory throughout his career is dumfounding. He may have been more about ego and glory than a real investigation of nature. — Rich
A so-called Bersonian who proclaims that there is no such thing as illusion — StreetlightX
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