Timeline for Is there a philosophy of libertarian free will that doesn’t just devolve into randomness?
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| Oct 29 at 23:05 | comment | added | NotThatGuy | I'd rather say strong emergence is pseudo-scientific (or non-scientific, or anti-scientific, even), and it spits in the face of everything we know about how the world works. Philosophy is largely just people thinking about stuff, which could (and often does) include people thinking complete nonsense - it's not a hugely meaningful label. | |
| Oct 29 at 16:49 | comment | added | Syed | @tkruse Great point. Divine simplicity is another example of this. You have God described as the most intelligent, most powerful, and most knowledgeable being and yet somehow through word salad this Being is the simplest possible (and not complex) and has no parts. | |
| Oct 29 at 12:25 | comment | added | tkruse | My deepest secrets revealed! Woe is me. | |
| Oct 29 at 12:12 | comment | added | Kristian Berry | It is scientifically inaccurate to attribute the primary motivation for suicide bombings, to the background use of obscure abstract statements. It is also not accurate to characterize strong emergentism as "pseudo-philosophical," your statement revealing that you are are being yourself pseudo-philosophical (by not accepting the mainstream consensus that strong emergentism is a genuine philosophical position). | |
| Oct 29 at 11:31 | comment | added | tkruse | Some linguistic garbage like "gods are determining their choices themselves as a whole without a smaller part being a causal determinant. That's the problem with natural language in philosophy, you can just string words together and pretend they have meaning, or transcend meaning, and then roll out your prayer rug and prepare for your suicide bombing as a consequence. | |
| Oct 29 at 11:30 | history | edited | tkruse | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 29 at 11:22 | comment | added | Syed | What is the third option between something determining God’s choice and nothing determining it? If there is none, isn’t the second option no different from randomness? | |
| Oct 29 at 11:15 | history | answered | tkruse | CC BY-SA 4.0 |