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any argument for that position?>

I'll most likely not be convinced by them either.

I've heard two arguments against free will and dualism:

-Brain damage arguments

-Libets experiments.

neither are convincing.

Are there any solid arguments for materialism/determinism that aren't brain-damage arguments?

It must have been a decision to go back to school while others around you from high school years etc have full time jobs (I know the feels).

I'm still torn about life decisions too. I feel that in...

God, arnie looks ancient now.

What was your first degree? Why'd you decide to go back to school?

I think determinism is self-defeating for various reasons:

- Ought implies can. Determinists believe we ought to accept their reasoning. But if I can't (out of my control, determined to do...

I comfortably learnt alot of linear on my own. Basically, I read alot about physics and its implications for various other ideas, so I wanted to get a better handle on what physics was actually...

In our molecular lab, we have various things which are ridiculously cold.

One time I put my hand into an esky which I thought was full of packing foam, only to realise it was dry ice. Luckily my...

Yep,I've got nothing. I'm as helpless as a baby.

This is one of the wierder ones I've found....


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I'm sorry, has the converse actually been the case, at some point?

I have like 2k, age 26. I've been in school for the majority of my 20s though

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The analogy is meant to demonstrate our conceptual analysis of the mind/brain affair.


Just like we cannot grasp the economy at the level of individual humans, but rather needing a holistic...

lol, theres no begging of questions. Theres no god of the gap. This is not 'pseudo-scientific investigation'. I have explained precisely where this discussion lies, and it is not offering some sort...

*possible spoilers*

It's still possible for universals to exist despite someone being mistaken about them.


For example, those in primitive countries might still engage in cannibalism, so someone might say morals...

It's only special pleading if no attempt at justification is attempted. But that's not true here. The mind presents a host of unique problems. Feser gives an explicit reason as to why the mind is...