RE: Determinism Is Self Defeating
July 12, 2013 at 6:04 am
(This post was last modified: July 12, 2013 at 6:05 am by little_monkey.)
(July 11, 2013 at 4:12 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Insisting that all philosophical issues be filtered through the scientific process pretty much defines "begging the question," since as Joe pointed out, science is pretty much founded on physical determinism.
I think you're too focus on humans and their alleged free will. You need to pull back and look at the big picture. There's nothing that sentient beings like us - living on a rock, in one solar system, out of millions of stars in a galaxy, which is one of gazillions in the universe - can do to affect the fate of the universe, which is basically determined. So if the 99.9999999999999999999999....% of this universe is determined, and you insist that whatever is not is more important, then fine, you're entitled to your opinion.
Joe
