(April 14, 2015 at 4:45 pm)Aroura Wrote: Although I agree it isn't resolved, and possibly cannot be because of our own built-in bias on the subject, but I would certainly argue that it is not at all irrelevant. Again, see the Humanist argument that deterministic worldviews would lead to a more compassionate society, and even a more functional one.
I'll have to read up a bit, but I can't imagine how a determinist worldview would necessarily lead to a more compassionate and functional society. On the surface it seems like a bit of wish fulfillment with nobody being able to give a proper bottoms-up description of exactly how things work. Why couldn't a determisitc universe result in anarchy and chaos? To me we wish for an ideal and then rationalize how the stars aligned to get us there.
