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The Nature of Time: A-Theory vs. B-Theory
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Originally posted by Jim B. View PostYes, that's exactly what I've been saying. The Compatibilist version of FREEDOM has nothing to do with metaphysics. They do not believe in METAPHYSICAL FREE WILL. Only libertarians do. Compatibilists believe in determinism.
Glad you clarified it was previously not clear, but you may clarify the following.
Originally posted by JimBCompatibilism actually is a form of metaphysical determinism. Compatibilists believe that all of our actions are determined by the past but that we have circumstantial freedom, ie we are free to act on our wills and desires. They believe we have the kind of freedom that makes us fit subjects for moral responsibility, but they don't think we are really free, that we could have done otherwise. So it could be a clockwork universe as BP is saying and one could still be a compatibilistLast edited by shunyadragon; 05-18-2020, 08:54 PM.Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them? Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1, Act III:
go with the flow the river knows . . .
Frank
I do not know, therefore everything is in pencil.
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Originally posted by JimL View PostThe evidence, from a laymans perspective, I believe goes like this. All of the atoms that make up the world, at the beginning of time, the Big Bang, began their journey through the universe, and from that beginning they are fated, determined to go wherever it is they end up. They don't have free will. Well, those atoms are the building blocks, so to speak, of you and me, of our nervous systems, are brains. Therefore, we, who are composed of these determined atoms, must also be determined. It's physics.
Okay.
Do you have another theory?
Okay, object away my friend.
I do not have another theory, I believe in 'soft' determinism that allows for a limited free will, which is described in the literature I cite.. You believe in hard determinism, OK!, but again, I do not hold to either a rigid A not B theory of time. Time simply exists in a space time relationship of our universe.
Right, but the question is, is the universe, are we, determined. And those are the only 2 theories of time I can think of. The future is either open or closed. Do you have another theory?Last edited by shunyadragon; 05-18-2020, 09:36 PM.Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them? Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1, Act III:
go with the flow the river knows . . .
Frank
I do not know, therefore everything is in pencil.
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Originally posted by Jim B. View PostBut why would God go to such elaborate lengths as messing with alternative universes when there are so much simpler and more elegant solutions?
(In case the point isn't obvious: should there be a divine being, we should be very cautious about attributing our own sense of motivations, simplicity, and elegance to it.)"Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from trolling."
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Originally posted by shunyadragon View PostCompatabilists believe in 'soft' determinism.'
Glad you clarified it was previously not clear, but you may clarify the following.
https://www.informationphilosopher.c...atibilism.html
Compatibilists argue that determinism is compatible with human freedom, and that indeterminism is not compatible or at best incoherent. They feel (correctly) that there must be a deterministic or causal connection between our will and our actions. This allows us to take responsibility for our actions, including credit for the good and blame for the bad. ...
Compatibilists (or "soft determinists" as they have been known since William James) identify free will with freedom of action - the lack of external constraints. We are free, and we have free will, if we are not in physical chains. But freedom of the will is different from freedom of action.
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Originally posted by TheLurch View PostWhy would God have allowed his creation to come about over 12 billion years via evolution? There would seem to be much simpler and more elegant solutions.
(In case the point isn't obvious: should there be a divine being, we should be very cautious about attributing our own sense of motivations, simplicity, and elegance to it.)
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Originally posted by Jim B. View PostFree will through agent causation.
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Originally posted by Jim B. View PostFree will through agent causation.
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostAll choices would still be free. He wouldn't be able to actualize a timeline for instance where you would choose to do something that you didn't freely choose. If you had a choice between chocolate, vanilla and butterscotch ice cream and you hated butterscotch (who doesn't?) then God couldn't actualize a universe where you chose butterscotch. Since you would freely choose vanilla or chocolate, either one would be your free will choice. In the many worlds theory, both would be chosen and branch off into two parallel universes. Each with you choosing freely, one chocolate and one vanilla. So if God just actualized one or the other, it would still be your choice.
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostAll choices would still be free. He wouldn't be able to actualize a timeline for instance where you would choose to do something that you didn't freely choose. If you had a choice between chocolate, vanilla and butterscotch ice cream and you hated butterscotch (who doesn't?) then God couldn't actualize a universe where you chose butterscotch. Since you would freely choose vanilla or chocolate, either one would be your free will choice. In the many worlds theory, both would be chosen and branch off into two parallel universes. Each with you choosing freely, one chocolate and one vanilla. So if God just actualized one or the other, it would still be your choice.
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Originally posted by Jim B. View PostI guess I'm not following you at all. Why the need to invoke other universes at all? Why not just a free agent who makes a free choice structured by but not caused by reasons? Boom. Done. (And BTW, I don't hate butterscotch!)
And if you don't hate butterscotch, then you are of the devil and I can't listen to you any longer.
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Originally posted by Jim B. View PostCompatibilists believe that universal determinism is compatible with the kind of freedom that grants us moral responsibility. "Soft" determinism is not meant as a contravention of universal determinism. It means that even if we are determined, we can still be "free" in our actions in that we can act in accordance with our wills and desires, and thus be fit for moral responsibility. Compatibilists generally tend to be determinists.
https://www.informationphilosopher.c...atibilism.html
More to follow. . .Last edited by shunyadragon; 05-19-2020, 03:11 PM.Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them? Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1, Act III:
go with the flow the river knows . . .
Frank
I do not know, therefore everything is in pencil.
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