RE: Do you believe in free will?
March 15, 2012 at 12:35 pm
(This post was last modified: March 15, 2012 at 12:48 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Yet the eliminative materialist urges precisely that, that we purge ourselves of these antiquated notions such as self, and reduce it to biology, which I have done, and you are arguing against. That's why I'm riled up, if you haven't been able to figure that out yet (or if I have been completely incapable of successfully communicating my thoughts on the matter). You're criticizing me and those who I draw my appraisals of such matters from for doing exactly what you suggest that we do, not because of the strength of your argument (or the strength of the EM argument), I might add, but because we have evidence that seems to confirm the argument in one sense while simultaneously suggesting that the concept need not be eliminated, only redifined in light of that evidence which brought us here in the first place. It seems that it's satisfying for you to suggest it in an argument, but if someone actually does it in practice, you appear to be very conflicted on the matter.
You and I agree completely as far as the credibility of the compatibilists argument, and that there's no point in just rolling over for half of it. Of course, that may be bias, I'm not the kind of person that rolls over for arguments...am I..lol?
You and I agree completely as far as the credibility of the compatibilists argument, and that there's no point in just rolling over for half of it. Of course, that may be bias, I'm not the kind of person that rolls over for arguments...am I..lol?
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