Believe Determinism 100%

@kennethamy,

Well, I think there's quite a bit of difference between Hume talking about billiard balls hitting each other and the notion of free will in humans. Inanimate objects, after all, don't have any choice in their actions, nor do they have any moral culpability.

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@joefromchicago,

joefromchicago wrote:

Well, I think there's quite a bit of difference between Hume talking about billiard balls hitting each other and the notion of free will in humans. Inanimate objects, after all, don't have any choice in their actions, nor do they have any moral culpability.

Well, that is certainly true. But how does that have anything to do with whether determinism is true?

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@kennethamy,

Whether determinism is true or not with regard to inanimate objects is, as I said before, not a very interesting question.

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@joefromchicago,

And aside from not being interesting. Its sort of pointless. Its not as if we knew one way or the other our experience in life would change.

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@GoshisDead,

GoshisDead wrote:

And aside from not being interesting. Its sort of pointless. Its not as if we knew one way or the other our experience in life would change.

That is also true about whether light is a wave or a particle, whether the Sun goes around the Earth or whether the Earth goes around the Sun, and whether the Big Bang theory is true or false. Pointless all of those issues, not to say boring. Right?

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@kennethamy,

kennethamy wrote:

whether light is a wave or a particle

Are the possibilities limited to these two?

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@ughaibu,

ughaibu wrote:

kennethamy wrote:
whether light is a wave or a particle
Are the possibilities limited to these two?

I have no idea? Why do you ask? And why do you ask me?

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@kennethamy,

kennethamy wrote:

Why do you ask?

Why do you ask why I ask?

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@ughaibu,

ughaibu wrote:

kennethamy wrote:
Why do you ask?
Why do you ask why I ask?

Because I did not know why you asked, and why you would ask me?

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@kennethamy,

kennethamy wrote:

Because I did not know why you asked

Would any reply, from me, activate your knowledge?

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It's a hard one, but Quantum Mechanics goes against Determinism. Either way, you should alter your statement as nothing should be believed 100%.

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