I don't have anything else to say. — Truth Seeker
I have no idea what that means! — Truth Seeker
You could do with reading Hume. Hume's cause and effect theory will set you back to the right track on this. Genes, environment, nutrients and experiences are Genes, environment, nutrients and experiences. They are not causes themselves. Your psychology is saying they are the causes for the choices made by organisms. In other words, causes exist in your mind, not out there in the world.Genes, environments, nutrients, and experiences determine and constrain the choices made by organisms. — Truth Seeker
It is not a fact. It is a dogma and misunderstanding.This is a fact. — Truth Seeker
They are not rational philosophical comments. It is like saying "Ants don't play guitars." and "Humans don't fly like the birds."This is why banana trees don't type posts on forums and humans don't photosynthesise. — Truth Seeker
I would love to know more about your experience of meditation. I meditate daily. I have not experienced what you described. How did you come to experience it? — Truth Seeker
We don't have enough knowledge to predict people's behaviour with 100% accuracy but that does not mean that the behaviours are not deterministic. — Truth Seeker
I have seen the evidence for the following groups of variables: genes, environments, nutrients, and experiences. I have not seen any evidence for the existence of other groups of variables. If you can show me the evidence for other groups of variables, please do. — Truth Seeker
Thank you for the reading recommendation. "Ants don't play guitars." is a fact. "Humans don't fly like the birds." is also a fact. Just as what I said in my post are facts. — Truth Seeker
I don't see any evidence for any X factor in decision-making. Can you show me any evidence for the X factor that I could see using a brain scanner? — Truth Seeker
Quantum indeterminacy does not lead to macroscopic indeterminacy due to quantum decoherence. At the macroscopic level, things don't happen randomly. They happen deterministically. — Truth Seeker
At the macroscopic level, things don't happen randomly. They happen deterministically. — Truth Seeker
Did you read the two articles I gave you links for? — Truth Seeker
I would rather the gun in your experiment was pointing at a wall instead of a cat. — Truth Seeker
It's possible that our brain scanners are not yet good enough to see everything. — Truth Seeker
I am not convinced that determinism removes our brain's credibility. — Truth Seeker
What do they mean when they say free will? — Truth Seeker
How do you know that is the correct meaning? — Truth Seeker
Your argument for how determinism removes our brain's credibility did not make any sense to me. — Truth Seeker
Are you talking about this? https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140116085105.htm — Truth Seeker
The macroscopic world is deterministic despite quantum indeterminacy. You can test this by doing the following experiment. Take a coin and toss it. It will land on its head or tail - it will never be superpositioned or indeterminate. — Truth Seeker
How do you know that someone could have done something else at the time and place of the doing instead of what was done? — Truth Seeker
However, just because the choice to donate is voluntary it does not mean that it is free from prior causes or divine predestination. — Truth Seeker
That is just saying determinism is true, and freewill is false. — Corvus
logical argument, which clearly is not. — Corvus
Write down exactly back to front determinism replaced with freewill, you get the same conclusion for freewill is true and determinism is an illusion. — Corvus
Sorry mate, go and think harder, and you need to brining in something which makes sense for your argument. — Corvus
You must write down all the determinant properties for X, if X is determined. And prove those properties are necessarily true. If you do that, I will show you why they are false. — Corvus
"Do you accept that all events have prior causes?" If so, that syllogism holds and defeats your position. — AmadeusD
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