RE: The burden of proof relating to conciousness, free choice and rationality
February 29, 2012 at 9:46 pm
<checks watch, coughs politely>
While I realise I'm frequently mistaken for being absent, a little acknowledgement never goes amiss; even if it's only "go away, boy, you bother me" or similar.
(February 25, 2012 at 2:48 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Here's a little something to chew over. What would a Universe in which free will doesn't exist look like compared with one in which it does? Could there even be a way to tell them apart?
While I realise I'm frequently mistaken for being absent, a little acknowledgement never goes amiss; even if it's only "go away, boy, you bother me" or similar.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
