Mon 15 Jun, 2009 10:46 pm - [QUOTE=Krumple;64448]Obviously I don't have free will because I can't seem to answer why I bother responding to most threads. I know that no one is really going to come out any different... (view)
Mon 15 Jun, 2009 03:43 am - [QUOTE=richrf;69369]Hi innocent,
There are completely different ways to view Life, than the perspective that you propose. I do not want to turn everything inside out, in a short paragraph, but as... (view)
Sun 14 Jun, 2009 11:29 pm - [QUOTE=richrf;69341]Hi innocent,
I think you can define it to this extreme if you wish, but there is no need to. If you glance at Wikipedia (by no means the final arbiter of any discussion), you... (view)
Sun 14 Jun, 2009 10:12 pm - Free will has historically meant that we humans are free to choose our actions independently of any and all influences. For example, if one person's parents lead him to believe that stealing... (view)
Sun 14 Jun, 2009 10:00 pm - [QUOTE=richrf;69239]Hi there innocent,
I am not satisfied with some of the very narrow definitions I find in philosophy texts. I think they are fine for starters, but I think that life is far... (view)
Sun 14 Jun, 2009 09:54 pm - [QUOTE=KaseiJin;69249]Yes, innocent, that is about the set up. It is also (and more properly, in my concerned opinion) called '[I]stop/go[/I]' acts--[I]an inhibition to a circuit will... (view)
Sun 14 Jun, 2009 02:48 pm - [QUOTE=richrf;67791]Last night I went to sleep. While I was asleep, I had no sense of space, time, obligation, sense, awareness of my body or myself, or thought. I was just asleep.
All of a... (view)
Sun 14 Jun, 2009 10:00 am - [CENTER][B]A free will is necessarily amoral. A determined [/B]
[B]will is necessarily moral and non-accountable[/B][/CENTER]
If human beings are truly in possession of a free will that is... (view)
Sun 14 Jun, 2009 06:42 am - Actually, Libet's experiment demonstrates that there is a short interval of time after which the unconscious has made a choice wherein the conscious mind MAY veto that choice. Libet referred... (view)
