RE: If free will was not real
August 21, 2016 at 7:16 pm
(This post was last modified: August 21, 2016 at 7:17 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 21, 2016 at 7:10 pm)Gemini Wrote:If colloquialist and compatibilist free will are the same thing then why resist any criticism that it's nothing more than a semantic bait and switch?(August 21, 2016 at 6:13 pm)Rhythm Wrote: You doin;t reference the experts -to establish your claim- you referencied a popularizing artcile that uses the same words, that was -about- people studying something that they do not, themselves, establish or even attempt to establish as "free" in any more than the colloquial compatibilist sense.
Fixed that for you
(And it was an article referencing data released in a peer-reviewed journal that supports my definition of human agency via functional frontal lobes).
Quote:That's another debate--whether the definition of autonomy I've given per contemporary jurisprudence is justified because it is ethical or merely because it is the law. I would argue it's the former. So I'm not arguing for legalism.Good, then bye bye frontal lobes...since that's the context in which you proposed them...and it didn't work anyway.
Quote:I am free from duress and coercion per the dictionary definition. Pedantic bitch, remember
No, you're not, I guess it's just a lapse of your pedantic side. : shrugs :
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