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Michael S. Pearl

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      Michael S. Pearl replied to the thread According to Robert Sapolsky, human free will does not exist.
      That descriptor was, of course, a general and introductory, non-exhaustive remark about the experience - and, therefore, the...
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      Michael S. Pearl replied to the thread According to Robert Sapolsky, human free will does not exist.
      I am going to put forth a different, maybe even more basic confounding factor. Use of the term determine in any of its forms suggests...
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      Michael S. Pearl replied to the thread Block Universe.
      As was noted previously, pood succinctly noted a problem with the growing block theory as it appears to be typically depicted: And I...
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      Michael S. Pearl replied to the thread Block Universe.
      The so-called "growing block time" as I have been pondering and presenting it (in terms of determinateness or fixedness being seemingly...
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      Michael S. Pearl replied to the thread Block Universe.
      How/where is such an assumption included? If the internal perspective is singular (such as that experienced by an individual), then...
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      Michael S. Pearl replied to the thread Block Universe.
      Of course the "outside" is hypothetical. Maybe it is best called flat out imaginary. The "outside" goes along with or follows from the...
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      Michael S. Pearl replied to the thread Block Universe.
      "Block" in "block universe" refers to a shape. It is supposed as if there is an outside. "Content" would be whatever occurs within any...
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      Michael S. Pearl replied to the thread Block Universe.
      Right. That's what I was acknowledging when I said "mapping (or locating) occurrences in terms of the relative wheres and whens". Rather...
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      Michael S. Pearl replied to the thread Block Universe.
      Doesn't that all just indicate a problem with the insistent use of exist and existence? This can be tied in with the never-ending...
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      Michael S. Pearl replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.
      Nothing new there. All that has been addressed repeatedly. Ad nauseam. It is not a detour. It is a perspective which you have not...
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      Michael S. Pearl replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.
      Uh, you missed something. I said, "I admit that I did not need to describe your analogy as terrible. I admit that I could simply have...
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      Michael S. Pearl replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.
      In fact, I called it terrible. But I also indicated how you can recognize a deficiency which you had not noticed previously. Hence, it...
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      Michael S. Pearl replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.
      Yet another ambiguous statement on your part. If you understood the relationships between possibility, actuality, understanding, and...
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      Michael S. Pearl replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.
      Huh? I did not pivot. I pointed out that, when you attribute a position to me without even being bothered with any need for...
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      Michael S. Pearl replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.
      So, it is for the sake of intellectual honesty that you attribute a position to me without caring to justify your attribution or, in the...
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