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Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does
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RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does
(December 16, 2013 at 8:52 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: One thing I believe is relevant to free will is the idea of creativity. Very few choices are simple forks in the road or ordering from a menu. And even those are not so simple. You can choose neither path and go off-roading. You can flirt with the server instead of ordering. The capacity to invent new choices and create opportunities is part of what makes us human, the infinity within us.

I have no problem with positing an 'infinity' within us, I just don't think we require a transpersonal entity to bequeath it to us. I don't see any need for an intermediary source to broadcast this infinity to our receiver either. I agree that any account which leaves out creativity is over simplifying the problem. If depth has arisen anywhere it might just as well come from/to us directly.
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RE: Fine tuning - by pocaracas - December 4, 2013 at 5:59 pm
RE: Not Convinced Determinism Makes Sense of Moral Responsibility. Convince Me It Does - by Whateverist - December 16, 2013 at 9:35 pm

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