Regardless of what the hard determinism or constraints were, if someone came into your house, stole everything of your valuables, then you will morally accuse and legally punish the wrong doer, even if he says to you, that he was programmed to steal your valuables by his DNA, and he had no choice, and the wrong doings were the results of determinism and inherent constraint. Would you not? — Corvus
That sounds like Buddhism. Could it be right?then accessing God would be by being that nature, your true nature, that living breathing organism. Be-ing a human creature, accepting that reality, as opposed to what we spend the vast majority of our time doing, creating our own reality becoming a human "god." — ENOAH
Which sphere in the Tree of Life depicts morality?To incorporate the Abrahamic tradition, the former is the tree of life, the latter is the tree of knowledge. — ENOAH
Our preferences and the resultant choices are products of hard determinism. — Truth Seeker
No. You would not. Your present is the result of your past. — Truth Seeker
I could have chosen not drink anything at all, or could have drank a cola, but I chose to drink water because I wanted to. — Corvus
I could have gone to bed instead of reading your post in English, but I decided to read it. — Corvus
The moral deliberation of someone is not free from variables he or she did not choose i.e. genes, environments since conception to the present, nutrients from conception to the present, experiences from the womb to the present. We don't have free will. We have determined and constrained will. This is why no biological being is morally culpable. — Truth Seeker
I could have chosen not drink anything at all, or could have drank a cola, but I chose to drink water because I wanted to. — Corvus
No, you couldn't have. It was not open to you to decide anything but what the preceding history of hte Universe determined you to decide. — AmadeusD
Deliberation is a human activity. — L'éléphant
I disagree because it's a domino effect starting from the beginning of the universe to the present. If you remove any of the dominos from the trail of dominos the chain of causation breaks. — Truth Seeker
You wanting to is determined. This ignores the objection. — AmadeusD
As I can't create an identical universe or access data from another universe, I can't prove it incontrovertibly. However, I am almost certain that it is true - as my conclusion is based on experiments and observations carried out in this universe. — Truth Seeker
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