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    What Most People Fail to Understand about the Concept of Free Will

    I don't think it always gives me the right answer. But it's an importing starting point. If someone want's to convince me that my experiences are wrong, the burden of proof is surely not on my side.
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    What Most People Fail to Understand about the Concept of Free Will

    Yeah, there is no need to agree here. In my opinion it's just a believe. But this is exactly the crux of the matter. It feels as if the decision is free. And me feelings are the only thing I can access directly. To convince me that this is not the case, is quite a heavy burden.
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    What Most People Fail to Understand about the Concept of Free Will

    Because I don't know the mechanism? The decisions would be caused by the agent. You postulate that there is determined and random. I postulate that there could be some kind of "free will". Descisions come into being caused by the agent but just partly determined. And instead of some random...
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    What Most People Fail to Understand about the Concept of Free Will

    @Paul A hole would be ccontingent, that's the difference. There are other examples for brute facts. Think of an unmoved mover, some being without any cause. Aristoteles has argued quite convincingly that there has to be some uncaused thing - otherwise there would have been an infinite regress...
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    What Most People Fail to Understand about the Concept of Free Will

    Of course they do explain themselves, as they just are. If free will is an unmoved mover, there is no need for any further explanation. And as already stated. I carry no burden here. You claim that that indeterminism stands for random, which contradicts my experience. I haven't heared any...
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    What Most People Fail to Understand about the Concept of Free Will

    Libertarianism is not compatibilism, just by the way. According to wikipedia Indeterminism is the concept that events (certain events, or events of certain types) are not caused, or not caused deterministically (cf. causality) by prior events. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indeterminism)...
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    What Most People Fail to Understand about the Concept of Free Will

    @Paul Sure. Google Libertarianism. There are philosophers out there who define such a combination as "free will". You (or at least Dillinger) are the one who equates nondeterministic with random. Call brute facts nondeterministic, if you like. But it's far from beeing random. Surely not. I...
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    What Most People Fail to Understand about the Concept of Free Will

    @Paul So what? A combination helps as both determinism and chance included but the result is kind of both. We could argue if that is enough, sure. But free will as a brute fact seems to be a coherent answer. One hypothesis could be that an agent causes a will act to exist, as an unmoved...
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    What Most People Fail to Understand about the Concept of Free Will

    I can imagine either (1) a combination of random and deterministic or (2) free will a brute fact and/or as mystery. 1) Things are kind of stochastic. Our history determines the distribution. If I see a delicious apple in front of me, there is a 70% chance for me to grab it. 2) Our actions are...
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    Alex's view of Atheism

    @Paul Can I just come in here.. People often say that, but I don't think it is true. The default position is honest agnosticism. The reason? I have thought about that some time ago: I guess we all argee that there is a nearly infinite amount of statements we don't know. For example you don't...
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    So you think you have free will

    Do you guys know the following article? http://www.informationphilosopher.com/freedom/standard_argument.html Maybe the Two-stage model is interesting as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-stage_model_of_free_will http://www.informationphilosopher.com/freedom/two-stage_models.html Or what's...
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    Kill the afterlife

    @Arouet I would argue otherwise. If there was no infinite impact of my actions, then each individual action becomes meaningsless in the long run, as the result will always be zero (death = multiplication with zero). Therefore our actions (our studies, experiences and so on) would just be a...
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    Ganzfeld Experiments: Suggestions please.

    You separated psychology and folklore in one of your last posts. It's not really important for me. I only want to say that I would rather think of some psychological/biological explanation instead of folklore/culture, as such phenomena are spreaded all over the world. Of course both things are...
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    Ganzfeld Experiments: Suggestions please.

    I meant I would prefer psychology over folklore to explain such "experiences" - apart from parapsychology.
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    Ganzfeld Experiments: Suggestions please.

    Maybe. But as "paranormale" experiences are quite usual all over the world (people just call things different) it seems to be rather a psychological thing.
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    Ganzfeld Experiments: Suggestions please.

    Sure, if there are decent explanations. I doubt, though, that mythology and folklore are suitable for explaining personal experiences. Sure, but people disagree about the evidence, therefore they discuss. The discussion is about the evidence, like in any other scientific field. The answer is...
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    Ganzfeld Experiments: Suggestions please.

    Yeah, but as I said, fields evolve. There are these phenomena out there and people want to explain them. If there is no macroscopic explanation they look somewhere else. Maybe people are just mistaken, who knows. But that doesn't change the fact that there is something to explain. And that...
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    Ganzfeld Experiments: Suggestions please.

    Yeah maybe. I would be OK with switching it back to psychology, at least all that Ganzfeld stuff. But as you say...today, parapsychology seems to be more than just "Fringe" psychology. It's also about physics and so on.
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    Ganzfeld Experiments: Suggestions please.

    If you read the literature or in this forum, you may recognize that there are plenty of replies. People just disagree regarding the arguments...and that's OK!
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    Ganzfeld Experiments: Suggestions please.

    What else should they do? I don't believe that parapsychologists are more dishonest than, biologists, for example. Religion represents a believe system. One would expect that it influences people, for example parapsychologists...in the same way as many sceptics are influenced by their own...
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