If free will was not real

[Gemini]

An equivocation.

Kind of reminds me of the title of Lawrence Krauss' book "A universe from nothing." All the science in it is correct and he's an excellent physicist but there's another equivocation right there. It should really be called "A universe from empty space teeming with quantum activity" but that would make a less punchy title.

You hit me right in the [redacted]. Couldn't agree more. (LOL I have to watch what I say or I'm gonna get forum banned. It'll blame you if I do, Hammy!)

(Also the original definition of atoms makes them unsplittable by definition. Science is always messing about with words but it's so they can focus on the hypothesis rather than changing the terms. The important thing is science gets the facts right rather than the semantics.)

+1

Your mind is pure sex. Keep talking like this. Rawr!

I'm like a teenager over here, going, "OMG Hammy is talking to me! Squee!"

Can't I be both? If I'm not pretenious I need to try harder. It's my favourite kind of ambitious because it means I don't actually have to acheive anything I can just act clever and call that something to be proud of.

Act clever because I am. Because yes I am smart as hell: or IOW as fuck (profanity is better).

You make me feel better about being pretentious. And this is the sexiest argument about free will to have occurred in the multiverse.

I feel like giving up on my hard incompatabilism would be giving in to laypeople who insist that a belief in free will is required to live a meaningful life.

We just have a different approach. If you don't give up on your compatabilism at least that gives us more opportunities to have more sexy arguments.

Then I had better remain a compatibilist!