Thu 19 Mar, 2020 07:19 pm - Thankfully we behave for reasons that are not capricious or random. If we, as naturally occurring phenomena in the universe, behaved for truly random reasons, then science could not say anything... (view)
Thu 19 Mar, 2020 06:57 pm - S[b][u]c[/u][/b]ar Wars
-A brother and sister, aided by a dashing smuggler and his wookiee companion, battle their estranged father for the title of, "possessor of the gnarliest scar". (view)
Thu 19 Mar, 2020 06:43 pm - [quote]What I learned to do was to take the business card from the hotel where I'm staying, and show it to the taxi driver. It worked 100% of the time. You can decide what's free will to... (view)
Sun 15 Mar, 2020 02:45 pm - [quote] Aren't we just part of the universe? [/quote]
As far as my limited understanding indicates.
[quote] Why do you think in terms of entities, including humans, being separate from... (view)
Sun 15 Mar, 2020 06:28 am - [quote] The subconscious mind may have free will, in the sense that it may have complex interconnected processes that it overweighs before choosing one or another to commit to, but if we are not... (view)
Tue 10 Mar, 2020 07:00 pm - [quote] So we experience ourselves making decisions and acting on them, but the decisions and actions were already decided by brain operations that occurred before the moment we actually thought we... (view)
Tue 10 Mar, 2020 05:58 pm - [quote] All I was trying to tell you is that if a user is paralyzed by fear they may not muster the strength to resist at first [/quote]
I originally brought up the addicted gambler; not a drug... (view)
Tue 10 Mar, 2020 03:45 pm - [quote]Then, once you gain some self-control, the fear/avoidance of sinking back into addictive compulsion serves as motivation to not fall off the wagon.[/quote]
The fear/avoidance and... (view)
Tue 10 Mar, 2020 04:21 am - [quote] Every cause has antecedent causes. Causation is not singular, though, but rather multiple causes interact to produce effects under conditions that were also caused by multiple antecedent... (view)
Sun 8 Mar, 2020 04:48 pm - Can a person be free at the same moment they feel compelled to do something where no external enforcing agent exists (e.g., addict)? (view)
