RE: Is Moral Responsibility Compatible With Determinism?
May 29, 2019 at 10:20 am
(This post was last modified: May 29, 2019 at 10:38 am by Anomalocaris.)
Simple property of material objects is an artifact of the laws of physics. It may be a complex emergent artifact of the laws of physics, but nonetheless directly outgrowth of those laws.
Observing people making choices is nonsense. We interpret what we observe to be the making of choices. But the interpretation is untestable. The mechanism underlying the observed phenomenon is not understood, so the grounds for the interpretation is wholly absent. Furthermore it appears the concept of choices is part of a pre-wired cognitive framework, so our interpretation of what we observe may be a case of translation of an unknown script by assuming its contents must be the same as the only English passage we happen to have on hand.
Observing people making choices is nonsense. We interpret what we observe to be the making of choices. But the interpretation is untestable. The mechanism underlying the observed phenomenon is not understood, so the grounds for the interpretation is wholly absent. Furthermore it appears the concept of choices is part of a pre-wired cognitive framework, so our interpretation of what we observe may be a case of translation of an unknown script by assuming its contents must be the same as the only English passage we happen to have on hand.
