RE: Determinism Is Self Defeating
July 16, 2013 at 8:15 am
(This post was last modified: July 16, 2013 at 8:32 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 15, 2013 at 2:58 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Ideas about the evolutionary advantage of a brain which is actually sentient, as opposed to a brain which just behaves as though its sentient, are pretty unconvincing unless mind itself provides a benefit that the brain does not.Which sort of brain do you have-and how would you distinguish between the two? This is why you can't wrap your head around determinism, btw. Because you'd really like to -maintain some suspicion- you have about the mind. I don't need to tell you all the ways that this can go wrong do I? You're trying to argue -for- the unknown unknown - which is fine...but -will- leave you in a "heads I win tails it's a tie" position...as you mentioned.
Quote:When I hear, in the same conversation, "There is instrinsic uncertainty in establishing the state of systems," and "Our best evidence points to the universe being deterministic," I have a problem with that.Why? Our best evidence -does- point to our universe being deterministic. Our best evidence also comes bundled with uncertainty. Whats the problem?
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