Isn't it obvious that, even from our own point of view, our choices are deterministic?
You choose based on your preferences, how you feel, and on the set of alternatives.
If your feelings are subconscious, and you don't know their reasons,you're still going by an assessment of the situation..
Sometimes you make some sort of intuitive, rough "game-theory" (in quotes because it usually isn't explicit, mathematical, or even conscious) assessment of a situation. Whether that game-theory assessment is intuitive or mathematical doesn't matter. You're still acting based on your predisposition, feeling, and assessment of the situation.
Even from your own point-of view, your choices are deterministic.
Compatibility? Does it make any sense to quibble about whether deterministic responses, resulting from external situations, and our predispositions, are free-will? I'd call it a meaningless question, but if a Y/N answer is needed, isn't "No" the one that seems more reasonable?
Michael Ossipoff — Michael Ossipoff
I doubt that the earliest scientists intended for their practice to be used to subjugate and/or dominate people and nature in the name of "progress".
I doubt that the founders of any religion intended for their tradition to be used turn people into pawns in political chess matches. — WISDOMfromPO-MO
In any case you can hardly fault me for very taking my position, now can you? — Rich
I have been possessed by the Great Natural Laws of Nature.
So then you talk to your disembodied, distributed, Sheldrake morphogenic, holographic, quantum Mind-repository. — Michael Ossipoff
I don't criticize you. I only criticize your predispositions — Michael Ossipoff
There is nothing random nor determined in our lives. It is probabilistic. — Rich
Probability is the result of an interaction of "chance and necessity". — Johannes Weg
In terms of life as we experience it, probability is a result of habitual behavior (which is approximately repetitive) and an impulse (novelty) from the creative mind acted on by will. — Rich
Do you feel that you are acting randomly in life? — Rich
Should we consider an advanced robot in future as "FREE" — Johannes Weg
Quanta behaves probabilistically, not randomly. — Rich
I had to think a lot about wrong decisions in my life hitherto. — Johannes Weg
highest quality of randomness — Johannes Weg
I discuss all the empistemological problems associated with induction and came to the conclusion that even science is inevitably based on beliefs. — Johannes Weg
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