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This doesn’t obscure my main point that it takes a spiritual soul to have free will. The mechanics of material things and animals are random and/or cause and effect.
How do you know that? The concept “material” does not imply “unintelligent”.The mechanics of material things and animals are random and/or cause and effect.
It’s the starting point for the Determinism-Indeterminism dilemma. The reason it is any sort of lasting dilemma is that there is nothing in our examination of the material world that has exhibited anything other than these modes for matter. From the Greek’s first posing of the dilemma to the present modern physical theories of the standard model and other proposals such a string theory nothing has made this dilemma mute.How do you know that? The concept “material” does not imply “unintelligent”.
I agree through I’ve not even come to grips with an automatic bubbling up of options. It seems deeper thought and deliberation accomplishes bringing new options to the fore. Are these also automatic and/or chance? I can accept it for the sake of argument, but I don’t think it a complete theory of decision making either.Right since reading I gather everyone is at will-free and conscience. I like the two model free-will, I don’t think its finished though by any stretch of the imagination.
With extremely limited time to simulate no time the best as possible. Chance is reduced to spontaneous choice which calls for a collective scan of the knowns. Then they may be applied to an unknown situation, so the individual acts in others and their own best interest with the choice.
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There’s a shallowness to the free-will system suggested which omits possibility and deeper thinking.
A freely willed decision is scientifically indistinguishable from an indeterminate event. Of course scientists can’t find proof for free will. The proof would look like indeterminism.It’s the starting point for the Determinism-Indeterminism dilemma. The reason it is any sort of lasting dilemma is that there is nothing in our examination of the material world that has exhibited anything other than these modes for matter. From the Greek’s first posing of the dilemma to the present modern physical theories of the standard model and other proposals such a string theory nothing has made this dilemma mute.
It’s not a proof, but the test has been exhausting and not found a cause for failure in all the examination of matter that all serious scientific research has undertaken. This is why I only pose it as an axiom though one that should be highly regarded.
Any time the Determinism-Indeterminism dilemma is proposed this same axiom is also part of the core of the dilemma. Applying Occam’s Razor I find the more simple escape from this dilemma to be that the spirit world is not able of being examined rather than all the sciences will some day examine an intelligence in matter that has escaped all the scientists eye for so long.
Agreed, just as the unbelieving say that each condition of the environment and step of mutation was a happy chain of accidents leading to humanity; so also, every thought a bit of luck of the firing of a synapse. This is why this dilemma will last as long as there are unbelievers, but to maintain unbelief and maintain this logic is to believe that all is luck, even your every thought and personality.A freely willed decision is scientifically indistinguishable from an indeterminate event. Of course scientists can’t find proof for free will. The proof would look like indeterminism.
Well, yes. Even supposing determinism is true, anyone who correctly asserts an argument for determinism is determined to assert that argument, which makes it puzzling how he could have any independent rational verification of the premises. It’s just a lucky guess.Agreed, just as the unbelieving say that each condition of the environment and step of mutation was a happy chain of accidents leading to humanity; so also, every thought a bit of luck of the firing of a synapse. This is why this dilemma will last as long as there are unbelievers, but to maintain unbelief and maintain this logic is to believe that all is luck, even your every thought and personality.
Obviously many will not accept this logic of “luck is everything”, but oddly some hard line and very intellectual atheists do. I personally know one.
Also, any argument against determinism is going to be based on premises less obvious than free will itself.Well, yes. Even supposing determinism is true, anyone who correctly asserts an argument for determinism is determined to assert that argument, which makes it puzzling how he could have any independent rational verification of the premises. It’s just a lucky guess.
I like the way you think.Also, any argument against determinism is going to be based on premises less obvious than free will itself.
As I explained above it is the nature of those things which have a nature of their own which causes these things to move ( change in any way ) or rest. By their natures all things are, change, rest; and for living thing, all their living operations and functions are governed by their natures. But natures do not move or rest without an end, they do nothing without an end in view. But their ends are created in their natures.This doesn’t obscure my main point that it takes a spiritual soul to have free will. The mechanics of material things and animals are random and/or cause and effect.
I don’t lock God into any such job of all direction though I agree in His original endowment of direction and natures from the Beginning. He intercedes as He wills, but much of creation was a good creation in that it hardly needs redirection. If he allows randomness where His plan is not corrupted then who are we to say He must direct it instead.As I explained above it is the nature of those things which have a nature of their own which causes these things to move ( change in any way ) or rest. By their natures all things are, change, rest; and for living thing, all their living operations and functions are governed by their natures. But natures do not move or rest without an end, they do nothing without an end in view. But their ends are created in their natures.
But is God who creates these natures, so he causes them to act as their agent cause through their natures and directs them, through their natures, to their proper ends. This is indeed a type of determinism and it means that there is no indeterminism and no randomness in nature.
But man and angels are special cases. The nature of man is governed by his soul. Some operations of the soul are strictly natural operations - nurishment, growth, digestion, the functioning of the nevrves, the blood and lymph systems, etc. But the intellect and will are free. So there is in man natural operations in which he is not free, and the actions of the mind which are free.
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