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Proof of nonexistence of free will

 
 
Dasein
 
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Reply Sun 9 Jan, 2011 09:23 am
@Fil Albuquerque,
All there is is "thin air", contradiction, and paradox.

You've deluded your 'self' into thinking otherwise so you can can hide behind your semblance of a predictable, controllable existence through your brand of 'intelligence'. Basically, you are the definition of a coward hiding behind intelligence/arrogance, using it as your shield of authority, and manipulating pieces on a chessboard.

You need to wake your 'self' up.
Fil Albuquerque
 
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Reply Sun 9 Jan, 2011 10:59 am
@Dasein,
I am not the one every time someone disagreed was to go on ignore, and that says it all I guess...
guigus
 
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Reply Sun 9 Jan, 2011 06:27 pm
@Fil Albuquerque,
Fil Albuquerque wrote:

You see, then again you miss the point...the point was not my student days or how well I did at the time...I could n´t care less...the point was your comment without any basis about what I knew on them Guigus...again I could n´t care less if you believe it or not, you are a stranger to me...besides doing well on high school does n´t present much of challenge to brag about...
I could go on just to show you how wrong your assumptions are...I am not right winged, in fact last time I vote I did so in the Socialist party here in Portugal (they are centrer moderates and not truly socialist) but how does that has anything to do with order or anarchy ? Your classic connotations just immediately show your lack of ability to reason independently and out of the usual cliché...seriously, you would do well if you kept your mouth shut most of the time.


Sorry, but I am not interested in what your vote was, or in how your school times were, as I tried to say ironically, but you seem not to understand irony, so unfortunately I must say it literally while hoping this time you'll understand (if you want to talk about your life, go on, but don't do it because of me, since I am not interested).

And I didn't say you were right-winged, I said you were paranoid with the left: from your mouth comes your judgment, as well as all "classic connotations" involved... You misunderstood Dasein completely, and you seem to know very little about Heidegger (Dasein's hero) to think of him as an "anarchist." You probably studied Descartes on school, not Heidegger, since you say you were a good student -- aside from not paying attention to what Dasein says.

As for my mouth, I hope you notice it will keep talking.
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guigus
 
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Reply Sun 9 Jan, 2011 06:44 pm
@Dasein,
Dasein wrote:

All there is is "thin air", contradiction, and paradox.

You've deluded your 'self' into thinking otherwise so you can can hide behind your semblance of a predictable, controllable existence through your brand of 'intelligence'. Basically, you are the definition of a coward hiding behind intelligence/arrogance, using it as your shield of authority, and manipulating pieces on a chessboard.

You need to wake your 'self' up.


He is an authoritarian (he doesn't like free will), Dasein, and an aggressive one. And you are a philosophical priest... you are too soft for him. Neither one understands the other.
Fil Albuquerque
 
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Reply Mon 10 Jan, 2011 12:33 am
@guigus,
Its not about liking or not liking I simply don´t by any means so far in my entire life understood what in the hell means " degrees of freedom"...
...either things relate or they don´t...if they don´t then they are transcendent to each other and there´s nothing to talk about being freed off from...
As for authority...well, authority is not my own, but in Being in its wholeness, in the rules of Nature, and the world at large !...
Martin Heidegger was one of the fathers of Existentialism, a current which for instance in literature happens to be my favourite given the bits of wisdom it often reveals through its authors... but then while I think there´s some interesting stuff with Heidegger´s almost mystical perspective, I also have the impression that he goes a bridge to far and is often confusing and confused...and then again, I must agree that knowledge is essentially deeply personnel and highly dependent on the form one flows with the world...that in fact reminds me of Taoism who professes the wise dictum in which the WAY is what really matters and not the beginning where you started or the end where you will finish...my partial conflict with this only arises because I don´t see in any of it the need for dismissing the assertiveness of Being with the "being there" on the basis off an epistemic problem...every form is true and complete with the whole is my envision on how we should go about it...Function provides Meaning !
...BE-ING THERE is BEING TRUE !
guigus
 
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Reply Mon 10 Jan, 2011 04:56 am
@Fil Albuquerque,
Fil Albuquerque wrote:

Its not about liking or not liking I simply don´t by any means so far in my entire life understood what in the hell means " degrees of freedom"...
...either things relate or they don´t...if they don´t then they are transcendent to each other and there´s nothing to talk about being freed off from...


For someone complaining about "classical" thinking, you are quite a classical guy... Why don't you take a look in quantum physics? There you will find plenty of examples of things that are and are not related at once, that are and are not at some place at once, that are the same and not the same at once, etc, starting with light, which is both wave and particle at once.

Fil Albuquerque wrote:
As for authority...well, authority is not my own, but in Being in its wholeness, in the rules of Nature, and the world at large !...


There are many philosophical perspectives: yours is just one of them. Otherwise, there would be no point in a philosophical forum, don't you think?

Fil Albuquerque wrote:
Martin Heidegger was one of the fathers of Existentialism, a current which for instance in literature happens to be my favourite given the bits of wisdom it often reveals through its authors...


Have you tried reading the late Sartre? His Critique of Dialectical Reason? He is a great example of someone who rejected existentialism, created by himself, in favor of historical materialism: he rejected his own work in favor of another thinker's (Marx's) work, which is very rare indeed, and so deserves attention.

Fil Albuquerque wrote:
but then while I think there´s some interesting stuff with Heidegger´s almost mystical perspective, I also have the impression that he goes a bridge to far and is often confusing and confused...and then again, I must agree that knowledge is essentially deeply personnel and highly dependent on the form one flows with the world...that in fact reminds me of Taoism who professes the wise dictum in which the WAY is what really matters and not the beginning where you started or the end where you will finish...my partial conflict with this only arises because I don´t see in any of it the need for dismissing the assertiveness of Being with the "being there" on the basis off an epistemic problem...every form is true and complete with the whole is my envision on how we should go about it...Function provides Meaning !
...BE-ING THERE is BEING TRUE !


It is precisely this identification between being and truth that is the problem: there are truth and falsehood, so being is both.
Dasein
 
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Reply Mon 10 Jan, 2011 08:03 am
@Fil Albuquerque,
You and guigus have something in common. You both don't have any ears to hear with.

I guess your strategy in life is to attempt to 'wear down the opposition' and when you can't blame them as a strategy to get them to listen. You're hopelessly entangled and refuse to see a possible opportunity. You also have another thing in common with guigus ~ I've clicked the ignore button on both of you.

Go play with your little friend.
Fil Albuquerque
 
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Reply Mon 10 Jan, 2011 09:56 am
@guigus,
Oh you see but I love Quantum Mechanics...
The problem is the thing is half way through and with lousy Philosophical interpretations and assumptions for support...
See for instance the implication that a Multiverse brings about...where is the randomness if all possibles are actuals...in fact several people in the field believe an hard determined classical conception is reconcilable with it...
There is this idea that the quantum aberrations one observes may well be due to fuzziness effect between several Universes possibility´s at Plank scale...remember Schroedinger´s cat ?
guigus
 
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Reply Mon 10 Jan, 2011 07:18 pm
@Dasein,
Dasein wrote:

You and guigus have something in common. You both don't have any ears to hear with.

I guess your strategy in life is to attempt to 'wear down the opposition' and when you can't blame them as a strategy to get them to listen. You're hopelessly entangled and refuse to see a possible opportunity. You also have another thing in common with guigus ~ I've clicked the ignore button on both of you.

Go play with your little friend.


And you go play with yourself, but behave...
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guigus
 
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Reply Mon 10 Jan, 2011 07:46 pm
@Fil Albuquerque,
Fil Albuquerque wrote:
Oh you see but I love Quantum Mechanics...


Really?

Fil Albuquerque wrote:
The problem is the thing is half way through and with lousy Philosophical interpretations and assumptions for support...


Quantum mechanics is supported by physical reality via scientific experiments, not by philosophy: what it has today is a set of eight incomplete philosophical interpretations, all unsatisfactory, each one trying to "catch up" with something well ahead of it.

Fil Albuquerque wrote:
See for instance the implication that a Multiverse brings about...


This is one of those eight philosophical interpretations of quantum physics -- the many-worlds interpretation by Hugh Everett -- not quantum physics itself, and I am talking about quantum physics itself.

Fil Albuquerque wrote:
where is the randomness if all possibles are actuals...in fact several people in the field believe an hard determined classical conception is reconcilable with it...


In Hugh Everett's interpretation, all possibles are actuals only for an absolute consciousness of all worlds, which would belong to all worlds at once, hence violating their absolute independence and so making such an interpretation inconsistent.

Fil Albuquerque wrote:
There is this idea that the quantum aberrations one observes may well be due to fuzziness effect between several Universes possibility´s at Plank scale...remember Schroedinger´s cat ?


There are no "quantum aberrations": there is the way reality behaves, which has been abundantly observed and measured. Entanglement, for instance -- and its incompatibility with any classical description of the world -- does not depend on quantum physics at all, as Bell's theorem superbly shows: non-local interactions are a mandatory feature of any viable theory of the physical world.
Fil Albuquerque
 
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Reply Mon 10 Jan, 2011 08:54 pm
@guigus,
Quote:
In Hugh Everett's interpretation, all possibles are actuals only for an absolute consciousness of all worlds, which would belong to all worlds at once, hence violating their absolute independence and so making such an interpretation inconsistent.


1 - What ??? what does conscience or not conscience has to do with the status of Multiverse ??? Besides I never said anyone would experience all possibles at once, less alone an absolute conscience...conscience by definition cannot be absolute once always restrained to a particular perspective...if all was to be known you would n´t need to be conscious at all...from there what would you need to look for ? Sleep ?

2 - oh, now you come and try to isolate Everett´s little toy...it happens M Theory which is largely accepted this days also posits Multiverse which was borrowed from Everett´s idea...as for randomness, nobody can so far justify it in a sufficient manner Philosophically, basically it is a fast short-cut translation for a we don´t know sentence...eventually it will fall as it does n´t make any sense...
You may all you want disagree with me, but at least try to play fair and be accurate if it is not much to ask...
guigus
 
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Reply Tue 11 Jan, 2011 04:38 am
@Fil Albuquerque,
Fil Albuquerque wrote:

Quote:
In Hugh Everett's interpretation, all possibles are actuals only for an absolute consciousness of all worlds, which would belong to all worlds at once, hence violating their absolute independence and so making such an interpretation inconsistent.


1 - What ??? what does conscience or not conscience has to do with the status of Multiverse ??? Besides I never said anyone would experience all possibles at once, less alone an absolute conscience...conscience by definition cannot be absolute once always restrained to a particular perspective...if all was to be known you would n´t need to be conscious at all...from there what would you need to look for ? Sleep ?


The very existence of many worlds depends on something that unify them -- otherwise there would be nothing relative to which there can be many worlds to begin with -- and since many-worlds reduces possibility to actuality, some kind of consciousness is needed -- otherwise that unification becomes impossible -- a consciousness that must unify all worlds, either by belonging to all of them or by containing them all. Any classical theory needs an absolute consciousness, which is nothing else than its holder's belief taken as absolute.

Fil Albuquerque wrote:
2 - oh, now you come and try to isolate Everett´s little toy...it happens M Theory which is largely accepted this days also posits Multiverse which was borrowed from Everett´s idea...


Many-worlds is philosophically inconsistent -- in a remarkably obvious way -- and if M theory has the same structure, then it is inconsistent as well -- the reasons are given right above.

Fil Albuquerque wrote:
as for randomness, nobody can so far justify it in a sufficient manner Philosophically, basically it is a fast short-cut translation for a we don´t know sentence...eventually it will fall as it does n´t make any sense...


I have already justified randomness a few posts ago. I can repeat it if you want.

Fil Albuquerque wrote:
You may all you want disagree with me, but at least try to play fair and be accurate if it is not much to ask...


I do not want to disagree with you, I just disagree with you. And vice-versa, don't forget.
Fil Albuquerque
 
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Reply Tue 11 Jan, 2011 05:29 am
@guigus,
Oh Guigus...that does it for me, I am out of this one...
Conscientiousness unifying Universes ?
What in the hell am I suppose to answer to that ???
Look up in the dictionary for the meaning of conscientiousness might help...

See you around !
Dasein
 
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Reply Tue 11 Jan, 2011 10:31 am
When you were growing up you had to participate in conversations with you parents for your own survival. Late on you discovered that somtimes your parents didn't know what they were talking about and you put down what they had said. When you started grade school you did the same thing with your teachers and your fellow students because you didn't know any better. When you discovered that they didn't know what they were talking about you replaced what they said with what you found out.

You can 'walk away' from any conversation you don't want to participate in. If someone 'proposal' covers up or diminshes your "aliveness" I encourage you to 'walk away' and listen to your 'self'.

Yes, there are conseauences for 'walking away', there are also consequences for 'not walking away'. You choose.

There is no rule in life that says you have to participate in another person's nonsense. With this forum, you do that by pressing the 'ignore user' button and that keeps you from having to entertain their inviting you back into their conversation.

Always listen to your 'self' and stand by it.
Fil Albuquerque
 
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Reply Tue 11 Jan, 2011 02:41 pm
@Dasein,
That´s actually a fairly good way of describing a solipsist delusional mind in its isolation...
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guigus
 
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Reply Tue 11 Jan, 2011 07:52 pm
@Fil Albuquerque,
Fil Albuquerque wrote:

Oh Guigus...that does it for me, I am out of this one...
Conscientiousness unifying Universes ?
What in the hell am I suppose to answer to that ???
Look up in the dictionary for the meaning of conscientiousness might help...

See you around !


It's consciousness, not "conscientiousness." At least for you a dictionary would indeed come in handy.

Back to quantum physics, if you ignore the role consciousness plays in it -- in one way or the other -- then you didn't understand quantum physics at all. Quantum physics is the first theory in the history of modern science not to come from philosophical assumptions but from experimental data. Its philosophical meaning would come later, with its unexpected success. And it is the first physical theory to include ourselves as part of its equations. Quantum physics includes consciousness -- or subjectivity, or whatever you like to call it, and according to the dictionary of your choice -- simply because it gives possibility the same status as actuality: on one side we have the wave function -- possibility, probability -- on the other we have particles -- actuality -- and such a duality has no final resolution, it is forever there, which definitely ruins any classical view of the world.

Duality: see you around!
guigus
 
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Reply Tue 11 Jan, 2011 07:58 pm
@Dasein,
Dasein wrote:
There is no rule in life that says you have to participate in another person's nonsense.


Neither there is one saying you must stay participating in your own.
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Fil Albuquerque
 
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Reply Wed 12 Jan, 2011 02:08 am
@guigus,
Its almost ironic given your comments above upon consciousness that while I miss what is external in the word you miss the most important in it, its internal substance...my mistake given I am not a natural English speaker is quite understandable while yours its a rational mistake implying a severe hole in your capacity to make any sense in your learning process...case to say rather a spelling salad then a word conceptual salad...anyway´s as I said I was out of this one, so don´t even bother to reply...
guigus
 
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Reply Wed 12 Jan, 2011 03:29 am
@Fil Albuquerque,
Fil Albuquerque wrote:

Its almost ironic given your comments above upon consciousness that while I miss what is external in the word you miss the most important in it, its internal substance...my mistake given I am not a natural English speaker is quite understandable while yours its a rational mistake implying a severe hole in your capacity to make any sense in your learning process...case to say rather a spelling salad then a word conceptual salad...anyway´s as I said I was out of this one, so don´t even bother to reply...


Don't you get tired of saying people what to do? What is really ironic is that you keep saying "good bye" and always coming back. By the way, you are mixing things up: the "internal" is not objectivity, but subjectivity, while the "external" is not subjectivity, but objectivity. Is that you were referring to as a "salad"? As for any "severe hole," I think that would be the absolute lack of argumentation of your part.
guigus
 
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Reply Wed 12 Jan, 2011 03:30 am
@guigus,
guigus wrote:

Fil Albuquerque wrote:

Its almost ironic given your comments above upon consciousness that while I miss what is external in the word you miss the most important in it, its internal substance...my mistake given I am not a natural English speaker is quite understandable while yours its a rational mistake implying a severe hole in your capacity to make any sense in your learning process...case to say rather a spelling salad then a word conceptual salad...anyway´s as I said I was out of this one, so don´t even bother to reply...


Don't you get tired of telling people what to do? Anyway, I don't bother. What is really ironic is that you keep saying "good bye" and always coming back. By the way, you are mixing things up: the "internal" is not objectivity, but subjectivity, while the "external" is not subjectivity, but objectivity. Is that you were referring to as a "salad"?

As for any "severe hole," I think that it would be the absolute lack of argumentation of your part. Plenty of orders and insults, but no single argument.
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