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Pertti Ruismäki
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  • Helsinki, Finland
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Born in 1964. MA in industrial design 1991. No formal education in philosophy.

Main areas of interest in philosophy:

  • Determinism (or the lack of it)
  • Free will
  • Randomness
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Can randomness create patterns?
Aug 31
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How can we prove that the supernatural or paranormal doesn't exist?
Mar 3
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If we encounter what appears to be an advanced extraterrestrial technological device, would the claim that it was designed be falsifiable?
Jun 5
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Could Laplace's Demon be the universe itself?
Nov 6
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How improbable does an event have to be before we can say it didn't happen by chance?
Nov 9, 2022
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Why is mind interacting with matter any more problematic than matter interacting with matter?
Feb 7
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Is it possible for the universe to be deterministic at one level, but not at a higher level?
May 9
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Brain states, morality and free will: What can we discern from the case of the schoolteacher who became a pedophile post-brain tumor?
Mar 23
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Does Intelligent Design fulfill the necessary criteria to be recognized as a scientific theory?
Jun 3
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What is the difference between control exerted by an agent and causation?
Apr 20, 2022
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Local decrease of entropy, does it require life?

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