(July 14, 2013 at 3:08 pm)little_monkey Wrote: I know this is highly hypothetical, but if I could send you back 10 years and erase all your memory in those 10 years, do you believe you would make different choices and live a different life?No, I don't imagine that I would live my life or "make any choices" differently all other things being equivalent.
Personally I don't. In exactly the same circumstances, we would make exactly the same choices.
(July 14, 2013 at 4:19 pm)bennyboy Wrote: "Oh yeah, of course now we know there are hidden variables (or free will, or ___). In fact, Dr. Eisenblatterhausen has proven that given system X, over time t, Y% of the variability is due to magic space monkeys."Dr Eisen probably won't prove anything at all - but there may come a time when we have evidence that we don't have now, sure. That doesn't give us any reason to give out special passes in the now, imo.
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