Origins

FredGSanford · 07-08-2011, 10:24 PM

We are Borg...resistance is futile!

MrCode · 07-08-2011, 10:47 PM

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Originally Posted by dugan

Maybe take it into consideration that your "science implies determinism" assumption is wrong.

Maybe not as a whole, but with regard to the brain and the free will/determinism argument, some have already come to conclusions.

By the way, you were destined to read this, just as I was to write it.

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Many philosophers and scientists have argued that free will is an illusion. Unlike all of them, Benjamin Libet found a way to test it.

EDIT: See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Wegner#Free_will

SigTerm · 07-09-2011, 06:47 AM

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Originally Posted by MrCode

some have already come to conclusions.

Some != all.

bluegospel · 07-19-2011, 03:32 PM

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your life has already been laid out for you by the laws of physics.

Every law must be written

TobiSGD · 07-19-2011, 03:36 PM

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Originally Posted by bluegospel

Every law must be written

Do you mean that gravity didn't work before it was discovered? It was a law of physics long time before anyone has written it.

bluegospel · 07-19-2011, 04:03 PM

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Do you mean that gravity didn't work before it was discovered?

Discovery isn't the essence of a thing. Every law has it's author. Someone discovered the law many years after it was written.

(BTW, I love Newton's Law of Gravity! Quite enlightening. It was shot down though wasn't it?)

dugan · 07-19-2011, 04:43 PM

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Originally Posted by bluegospel

It was shot down though wasn't it?)

It's been superceded by Einstein's theory, but it's still used when it produces accurate results.

bluegospel · 07-19-2011, 04:57 PM

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It's been superceded by Einstein's theory, but it's still used when it produces accurate results.

Did you consider this?:

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Food for thought: fundamentally, isn't everything a satellite, or a member of a satellite? From the electron, to the subatomic particles, to the atom itself, and to the galaxies? The sun might be thought of as an atomic bond.

dugan · 07-19-2011, 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by bluegospel

Did you consider this?:

No offence, but of course not.

bluegospel · 07-19-2011, 05:06 PM

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No offence, but of course not.

Offense not taken, but what is your thought?