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Determinism Is Self Defeating
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RE: Determinism Is Self Defeating
July 5, 2013 at 10:18 am
(July 5, 2013 at 10:10 am)bennyboy Wrote: Nobody denies that the mind is supervenient on the brain (unless we get into idealism, solipsism, etc), or that there's a connection between brain function and mind. What is in dispute is whether it's possible to show that mind is ONLY brain function, and is therefore deterministic (assuming that a physical monism must be deterministic, which isn't guaranteed), or whether mind actually contributes something that pure mechanism can't. And if mind does NOT contribute something beyond pure mechanism, then why does it exist?

Turn off your PC (or whatever device you use)
Keep it turned off
Now use your favoured word processing software to write an explanation about why that software has supernatural (non-mechanical) properties.

Put another way, if software does NOT contribute something beyond pure mechanism, then why does it exist?
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Determinism Is Self Defeating - by Koolay - July 1, 2013 at 7:30 pm
RE: Determinism Is Self Defeating - by bennyboy - July 1, 2013 at 9:06 pm
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RE: Determinism Is Self Defeating - by bennyboy - July 9, 2013 at 6:48 pm
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RE: Determinism Is Self Defeating - by bennyboy - July 5, 2013 at 10:10 am
RE: Determinism Is Self Defeating - by Red Celt - July 5, 2013 at 10:18 am
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RE: Determinism Is Self Defeating - by bennyboy - July 5, 2013 at 11:35 pm
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