Determinism Is Self Defeating

[little_monkey]

Similarly, if we would open up your brain we would see synapses and neurons reacting with electric impulses, but would not see that these represent your thoughts. Will there be a day when we can do that? Who knows.

I don't know, though I kind of suspect there will be such a day. But what I really want to know, is do minds generate a field, or operate in some dimension, in which they CAN be manipulated. For example, could two brains, with two minds, be joined together and interact in that one common space?

/hippie-dippie speculation

Maybe. But more realistic would be a device that could be hooked up to your brain, and as you are thinking, those very thoughts are converted to images that would be seen on a screen.

Better not thinking on cheating on your wife!

There was a time we thought that Black Holes would not let any light out -- that's why they are called Blach Holes -- yet now we think that they can radiate (Hawking Radiation). So anything is possible -- the subjective could be explained objectively. Why not!

Each generation has the irritating habit of disproving the assumptions of those before it. My own assumptions could face that fate, and so could yours. Fun!

So far, I have 500 years of scientific investigation saying, there's no evidence of the immaterialism, or a spiritual world, or magic, and determinism is a pretty good foundation for explaining the universe.