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To put this yet another way, IF indeterminism is true, THEN we would all need to adjust our understanding of free will, whether it’s possible, and how to formulate our arguments for or against it. I am suggesting here that we accept indeterminism as hypothetically true (wave-function collapse...

I am always trying to update my knowledge on any number of topics, and what captured my attention on the subject I have raised here is this paper, which I am still working my way through. I have always wanted a thread like this to be an exchange of views and an exploration of news ways to...

But is that really true? That’s what I’m interested in discussing — whether libertarianism holds in an indeterministic world. I think a strong argument can be made that it does, and an equally strong argument can be made the the world is fundamentally non-determinstic, although this also depends...

I have to add, too, that it’s really ironic for DBT to accuse me of conflating libertarianism with compatibilism, which I did not do for reasons explained above, when in fact he has presented so many arguments from others against compatibilism which, when examined closely, were actually...

But, to press the point further, DBT is making the claim that if determinism is true, only one outcome is possible in any given chain of events. I and others have taken pains to point out that this is not true — while it’s true that only one outcome WILL happen, that particular outcome...

And now, after hopefully clearing that up, perhaps DBT can address the Born rule.

No, please try to read what I write, including my recent post just above. I wrote, putting free will to one side … I would like to focus on whether determinism is true at all. If it’s not, then yes, we move to libertarianism. However, I’m not conflating the two, but rather pointing out that free...

I’m not talking about free will. I want to focus the discussion for the moment on determinism. If determinism is not true, then neither hard determinism nor soft determinism (compatibilism) is true, because both require determinism to be true. The question of whether free will in some form is...

I can’t help but wonder if this would be the same result if incompetent and corrupt Russia ever really did decide to fire nukes.

Right, but it’s not just that he wants us to do nothing about an obvious global emergency. He wants us even to stop pretending to do anything about it. Come to think of it, maybe that’s the most honest thing to do — just admit we don’t give a crap about what happens to people after we die...

Use the quote function? Is there no end to your prevarication? Are you denying that you said there is scientific evidence that God exists? Also, why did you fail to quote the rest of what I wrote? Are you denying that you said there is no evidence that God causes brain cancer in children, while...

You can find online all over the place various discussions pro and con of whether Genesis is compatible with modern science. Not so much, I don’t think — though I admit I haven’t done a systematic search — of whether the Mayan creations myths are compatible with modern science, or the the...

You, who a self-identified “Biblical theist,” refer to “Team Creationists,” and what do you think most people here, who are atheists, are going to take that to mean, given that the word “creationist” is quite commonly used across many venues to refer either to theism or at least ID? Is it even...

You did. In the very first response to the OP.

Moreover, discussing ini this thread the biblical account of Genesis also has nothing to do with the OP. The OP is a scientific question, and the bible is a pre-scientific book of fables.