RE: Is free will real?
December 26, 2014 at 4:40 am
(This post was last modified: December 26, 2014 at 4:41 am by bennyboy.)
(December 25, 2014 at 10:23 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: A flat object is a sensible notion that reflects a definite attribute of objects in the real world.Really? Here I was, thinking the universe is made up of nothing but tiny little particle/waves vibrating in space. It seems to me that in order to perceive a flat surface, one must take literal physical reality (the collection of particles, none of which are flat, and no combination of which are flat), and imbue it with ideas. And what are these "objects" of which you speak? Those illusions by which I interact with an infinite sea of QM particles?
(December 26, 2014 at 12:28 am)IATIA Wrote: Just for starters, people are "subject to the demands of instinct", hunger, survival, sexual drive. Do whales, dolphins and apes have a world view? How about cats, dogs, parrots and ravens?Yes they are subject to those things. But they also have the capacity to act contrary to those instincts.
I do not know which non-human animals have a world view.
