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- April 11th, 2012, 6:30 pm
- Forum: Humanist Ethics & Morality
- Topic: Do/can we have free will and moral responsibility?
- Replies: 172
- Views: 22134
Re: Do/can we have free will and moral responsibility?
I have watched the Marcus du Sautoy (MS) video again (actually I think this was Simon Pegg playing a nutty professor!). The comments of John-Dylan Haynes (JDH) seemed actually to nullify those of MS: some of the former's phrases clearly rejected the nonsensical dualistic implications of MS that he ...
- April 11th, 2012, 3:52 pm
- Forum: Club Soda
- Topic: Henny Penny
- Replies: 968
- Views: 114981
Re: Henny Penny
shitty city?
- April 3rd, 2012, 6:10 pm
- Forum: Humanist Ethics & Morality
- Topic: Do/can we have free will and moral responsibility?
- Replies: 172
- Views: 22134
Re: Do/can we have free will and moral responsibility?
[T]here is something in the charge that compatibilists seek to justify MR by some vague thing called FW - tho' I am not sure that I think people do deserve to be punished for misdeeds, only that maybe they lose the right not to be punished (I must have said that many times). Most people do believe ...
- April 2nd, 2012, 4:34 pm
- Forum: Humanist Ethics & Morality
- Topic: Do/can we have free will and moral responsibility?
- Replies: 172
- Views: 22134
Re: Do/can we have free will and moral responsibility?
Daniel Dennett is a compatibilist. He explained his position in 'Freedom Evolves'. It didn't make sense to me. It's possible that he is right and the hard determinists are wrong ... OK. Good. That's all I wanted to establish. You are an agnostic about this too. ... but strangely enough, hard determ...
- April 2nd, 2012, 1:52 pm
- Forum: Humanist Ethics & Morality
- Topic: Do/can we have free will and moral responsibility?
- Replies: 172
- Views: 22134
Re: Do/can we have free will and moral responsibility?
if I said that FW was a function of consciousness I was not speaking very precisely. You mentioned it in the context of cats and dogs, which you thought had a "modest amount" of free will. What you said was: "But I am not saying that dogs have free will because they are trainable; cats have about t...
- April 1st, 2012, 8:09 pm
- Forum: Club Soda
- Topic: Henny Penny
- Replies: 968
- Views: 114981
Re: Henny Penny
I think Nick's talking about my moderately small dog. Normally the adjective would be apt, but she has just had a bath and right now smells luvverly.Tetenterre wrote:Ah. Literary allusion? Messed up my parting as it flew overhead...Nick wrote:I was thinking of smelly Nellie.....
Emma
- March 31st, 2012, 7:29 pm
- Forum: Social Club
- Topic: Grammer and phrases wot is irritating
- Replies: 388
- Views: 77424
Re: Grammer and phrases wot is irritating
[To Nick] You dirty old man! 
- March 31st, 2012, 6:47 pm
- Forum: Humanist Ethics & Morality
- Topic: Do/can we have free will and moral responsibility?
- Replies: 172
- Views: 22134
Re: Do/can we have free will and moral responsibility?
Being able to predict which of the two buttons (left or right) will be pressed is pretty impressive. I agree. Where did you get the 60% from? My memory. But there's a reference to it in this Nature article: "Neuroscience vs philosophy: Taking aim at free will" : "Haynes's 2008 study modernized the ...
- March 31st, 2012, 3:32 pm
- Forum: Religion
- Topic: Lord's prayer should be taught in schools says Archbishop
- Replies: 6
- Views: 799
Re: Lord's prayer should be taught in schools says Archbishop
:D x 2 Just face it son The days of superstition and myth are nearly done Not so fast, Lifey! I hate to spoil the mood, but I heard this on Today this morning, and was amazed, not at what the archbish said about the Lord's Prayer, but at the fact that another finding was mentioned but ignored. Accor...
- March 31st, 2012, 2:56 pm
- Forum: Humanist Ethics & Morality
- Topic: Do/can we have free will and moral responsibility?
- Replies: 172
- Views: 22134
Re: Do/can we have free will and moral responsibility?
It has been suggested that the self is an illusion, not an entity. Two words: false dichotomy. Would you like to expand? Oh, I am expanding, daily. To expand on the topic of the self would take a book. Fortunately, one has already been written: The Ego Trick , by Julian Baggini. I recommend it. Do ...
- March 31st, 2012, 2:04 pm
- Forum: Humanist Ethics & Morality
- Topic: Do/can we have free will and moral responsibility?
- Replies: 172
- Views: 22134
Re: Do/can we have free will and moral responsibility?
Mind you, I have not yet viewed the video that Emma recommends watching...[later, more than 6 seconds] still don't know what the fuss is about Note that I wasn't making a fuss about it. I've always been quite cautious about using these experiments as supporting evidence, and I still am. What I foun...
- March 31st, 2012, 12:46 pm
- Forum: Humanist Ethics & Morality
- Topic: Do/can we have free will and moral responsibility?
- Replies: 172
- Views: 22134
Re: Do/can we have free will and moral responsibility?
I'm a smoker and manage the cognitive dissonance with no problem. I don't want to quit smoking, but am almost bullied the very few times I have to see my GP. Although I know it is bad for me and may lead to an earlier death I choose to continue smoking. I have the option to access the nicotine patc...
- March 30th, 2012, 8:21 pm
- Forum: Humanist Ethics & Morality
- Topic: Do/can we have free will and moral responsibility?
- Replies: 172
- Views: 22134
Re: Do/can we have free will and moral responsibility?
I visited the hydroponicum there once, and fell in love with the place. Not sure I'm hardy enough to live there permanently, though.
Mind you, not sure I'm hardy enough to live in Peckham.
- March 30th, 2012, 5:34 pm
- Forum: Humanist Ethics & Morality
- Topic: Do/can we have free will and moral responsibility?
- Replies: 172
- Views: 22134
Re: Do/can we have free will and moral responsibility?
I have no doubt said this before, but I do not feel challenged by this research, partly because if one thinks of many actions one realises that they are not preceded by conscious decisions (and therefore to find out that scientific research confirms this is not a surprise). I refer mainly to fairly...
- March 30th, 2012, 5:02 pm
- Forum: Humanist Ethics & Morality
- Topic: Do/can we have free will and moral responsibility?
- Replies: 172
- Views: 22134
Re: Do/can we have free will and moral responsibility?
Two words: false dichotomy.Compassionist wrote:It has been suggested that the self is an illusion, not an entity.
Emma
- March 30th, 2012, 10:40 am
- Forum: Humanist Ethics & Morality
- Topic: Do/can we have free will and moral responsibility?
- Replies: 172
- Views: 22134
Re: Do/can we have free will and moral responsibility?
What makes something possible but extremely difficult? Can you give me some examples? How do you know that these things are even possible? Very good questions. We use the word "possible" when something appears to be possible from our own perspective at this particular time. For instance, if I'm goi...
- March 30th, 2012, 9:33 am
- Forum: Humanist Ethics & Morality
- Topic: Do/can we have free will and moral responsibility?
- Replies: 172
- Views: 22134
Re: Do/can we have free will and moral responsibility?
Could a different choice have been made by me or anyone else given the same variables? I can't see how. Isn't a choice the inevitable outcome of the interaction of the variables? I have analysed the thought process behind many of my choices and I can't see how any of them could have been different....
- March 29th, 2012, 12:11 pm
- Forum: Humanist Ethics & Morality
- Topic: Do/can we have free will and moral responsibility?
- Replies: 172
- Views: 22134
Re: Do/can we have free will and moral responsibility?
The omniverse is hypothetical. I know. I was just trying to get into the spirit of it. :wink: In my short story, the "Omniverse Forever", the protagonist has a great time being omnibenevolent, omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent and omniculpable. Gosh! Doesn't sound like my idea of a great time. :D...
- March 29th, 2012, 10:46 am
- Forum: Club Soda
- Topic: Henny Penny
- Replies: 968
- Views: 114981
Re: Henny Penny
Oh, pooh! I was just about to say that!Damn your abbey, Hammurabi?
- March 28th, 2012, 4:53 pm
- Forum: Humanist Ethics & Morality
- Topic: Do/can we have free will and moral responsibility?
- Replies: 172
- Views: 22134
Re: Do/can we have free will and moral responsibility?
How do you know that the causal universe is all there is? I am a strong agnostic regarding the ultimate nature of reality. It is entirely possible that there are an infinite number of universes in the omniverse and all possibilities are actualised in these infinite number of universes. In that case...