Philosophical Speculations

OP wrote: the brain being more of a radio that receives/channels consciousness rather than something that creates it. I strongly believe that that fits more closely with the evidence, albeit, not a proof. As a Christian Idealist, this is the model I prefer, and in fact, some agnostics do as well. - -

Well, (sigh), I tried again, and failed again.
Maybe y'all actually do NOT have free will,
and are simply reciting a script that nobody wrote.
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. . . The abstract metaphysical question of whether every occurrence has been determined from the "beginning" of existence cannot be answered and, fortunately, is completely irrelevant to anything of practical significance in our lives. The relevance concerns whether we regard each other ...

Chaos is not a-causual. Indeterminism (as defined by you), is not the same as a-causuality. The three-body problem (classiclly formulated) is fully deterministic on short time scales, and the fact that we can't predict whats going to happen in the far future does NOT suddenly open up for some kind ...

Are We Deterministic Robots? I have made this point before, but no one who denies free will has addressed it. Here is another try. Let us suppose, for the sake of the argument, that we have no free will. Okay, then. What must follow from that is that all of our thoughts, words and deeds are predeter...

Well, how is it free will if the Creator knows the result of my free choice even before I made it? If he knows the result of all our choices before we make them, that's exactly determinism, because we do not have any choice and freedom to make decisions that are different from those known to the Cr...

by Eugene I » Sun May 09, 2021 3:33 pm But it also means that the Creator cannot exhaustively know the reality by his cognition . . . Unless He is infinitely beyond OUR cognition. because if he could exhaustively know it, then the reality (and the knowledge of it) would be entirely deterministic Unl...

Inherent Unpredictability --by Robert Arvay It seems logical to many educated people that, if one knows everything about the state of a closed system, then one can, at least in principle, predict (or accurately calculate) all future states of that system. Yet, this seeming logic is provably false, a...

[copied / pasted] 'Spiritus Mundi' was a term used by W.B. Yeats to describe the collective soul of the universe containing the memories of all time. From 'Spiritus Mundi,' Yeats believed, came all poets' inspiration. [end copy / paste] Consciousness is the only known phenomenon which observes itsel...