RE: Free Will - Yes/No?
May 8, 2016 at 12:07 pm
(This post was last modified: May 8, 2016 at 12:15 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
I don't have to conceive it, it would just mean that what appears to be causality isn't causality. My point is simply that causality itself isn't absolutely proven. David Hume demonstrated that: just because the sun has come up every single time doesn't mean there's any absolute proof that tomorrow it will. It is just simply ridiculous to believe that it won't and I of course believe causality exists.
There is an equivocation between "indeterminism" to mean the opposite of philosophical determinism and "indeterminism" to mean unpredictability. This whole "but quantum mechanics is indeterministic" thing is a red herring and an equivocation, it's much more helpful to speak of "quantum unpredictability" rather than "quantum indeterminism" for that very reason: to avoid equivocation.
-Hammy
There is an equivocation between "indeterminism" to mean the opposite of philosophical determinism and "indeterminism" to mean unpredictability. This whole "but quantum mechanics is indeterministic" thing is a red herring and an equivocation, it's much more helpful to speak of "quantum unpredictability" rather than "quantum indeterminism" for that very reason: to avoid equivocation.
-Hammy
