(December 22, 2016 at 11:49 am)robvalue Wrote: Sure, you are just a self-aware cause and effect machine.
Why do you say that there is a self to be self-aware?
If you program a computer to run seemingly self-aware words through its processor, that doesn't make it self-aware.
Quote:Have no rights? What does that mean, and how does it follow?
The overall argument is that, if we don't have free will, then it is unjust of god to judge us. But, we don't give that right to anything and everything. What are the determining factors that give something the right to fair judgment? I can run words through my laptop's processor then smash it with a hammer. I can't smash a person with a hammer. What's the difference between the two?
