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morality is subjective and people don't have free will
RE: morality is subjective and people don't have free will
(May 17, 2017 at 2:03 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:
(May 17, 2017 at 11:54 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: The second point is, that as a hard determinist, I don't believe in free will.  

So just to be clear, you believe in hard determinism not because it is true but because the initial conditions of the universe make you think that it is.

The two aren't mutually exclusive. My computer hard reset after a lightning strike yesterday. When it rebooted, it stopped at a BIOS screen and informed me that the power supply had experienced a power surge. This was no doubt due to various memory cells in the machine storing that information and computing what that meant. This was all determined to happen as soon as the lightning strike occurred. That the message from my computer about the power surge followed deterministic steps to its display does not mean that a power surge 'didn't' happen. It was both true and the initial conditions determined that the computer would come to that conclusion.
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RE: morality is subjective and people don't have free will - by Angrboda - May 17, 2017 at 3:38 pm

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