RE: Determinism, Free Will and Paradox
January 19, 2015 at 10:50 am
(This post was last modified: January 19, 2015 at 10:53 am by Mudhammam.)
(January 19, 2015 at 9:25 am)bennyboy Wrote: So for time: is the current state an expression of the initial state multiplied by factors representing universal laws? Or are the initial state and laws determined by a necessary (and inevitable) end state?Unless I were to believe that the Universe is a manifestation of converging intentionality, rather than intentionality being, from my point of view, one of the local, infinitesimal manifestations as result of a particular organization of matter/energy, I would say the former (in your case) and the latter (in mine) requires fewer assumptions given the available data.
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