Do you consider that a rational question? What should that be good for? If I was a religious person I could simply say that divine matters are not for humans. As I'm not I just ask why anyone would or should be interested in something that is - per definition - not real. Nonsense, right? We've got TV for those things. And just maybe philosophy forums.why does Reality exists? — DiegoT
the world is governed by (or is under the sway of) determinism if and only if, given a specified way things are at a time t, the way things go thereafter is fixed as a matter of natural law.”1 The Big Questions in Free Will Lexicon of Key Terms defines it as “the thesis that a complete statement of the laws of nature together with a complete description of the entire universe at any point in time logically entails a complete description of the entire universe at any other point in time.”2 In other words, if you have a complete description of the entire universe at one point, you can get a complete description of the universe in the past or future by calculating in the complete laws of nature (in theory) — Noah Te Stroete
f higher-level events are reducible to lower-level events down to physical-chemical processes, then events such as human decisions are reducible to the “behaviors” of atomic and subatomic particles and the four forces of nature: electromagnetism, gravity, and the weak and strong nuclear forces — Noah Te Stroete
Even if you could create a visual representation of all a person's thoughts on a screen, you'd be stuck trying to figure out what it means. You'd have to interpret. Even if you could ask the person themselves what the thoughts or the images mean, he'd have to interpret, because even our own thoughts we don't fully understand. Doesn't the ambiguity of our thoughts and dreams provide a great argument against determinism? — Tzeentch
I should state that I no longer believe in material reductionism. Free will is a matter that needs to be better defined. — Noah Te Stroete
because I can not even think of real processes not fully explainable via non deterministic causes, whether we know those causes or not. — DiegoT
Those posts don't seem to have much to do with my comment above. — Terrapin Station
the geometric-fractal structure of spacetime, — Noah Te Stroete
It's consistent and coherent at least. — Noah Te Stroete
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