(July 31, 2016 at 2:25 pm)RozKek Wrote:(July 31, 2016 at 2:10 pm)Jehanne Wrote: I disagree, fundamentally, with this analogy, even though I am a "mad dog" determinist, and even though I had heard scholars, such as Professor Daniel Dennett, appeal to it. If someone was holding a gun to my head, I just might tell them to "go fuck themselves." I guess that it would depend on what they were asking me to do and what mood I was in at the time.
Even though I do not hold to any positive belief in any afterlife, I very much care about my posthumous reputation.
"If you want you can say it's free" but it still really isn't free, that's what I got into. In reality it still isn't free.
I don't think that it is free. If the conservation laws apply everywhere throughout the Universe, then they also apply within one's head.