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@alexmarkadonis7179
2 жыл бұрын
Your channel is undersubscribed. I will definitely recommend you to others.
@Remiel_Plainview
6 ай бұрын
wonderful video. You got a subscriber man. 😻
@jolssoni2499
3 жыл бұрын
Regarding the experience machine, what exactly would be missing? It contains ex hypothesi everything that makes your life go best as far as your phenomenology is concerned, which is exactly why it sucks as an argument against hedonism. It's not ""real"", sure, but something's being ""real"" as opposed to a perfectly indistinguishable simulation is not something you can experience.
@christianf5131
2 жыл бұрын
So far, it sounds like you and I are very similar except you’re way smarter than me
@dillonswanson8313
3 жыл бұрын
Is scientific instrumentalism compatibile with physicalism?
@fanboy8026
3 жыл бұрын
yes
@8s700
3 жыл бұрын
Hi, I was wondering how you reconcile (1) the idea that hard determinism has problematic implications for personal responsibility, leading you to reject it, and (2) eternalism, which strikes me as having the same or similar implications. Namely, in eternalism, everything you'll ever do pre-exists concretely in the 4D block universe. As with determinism, it seems more that only the universe itself be responsible for what we end up doing, since no person had any influence on its eternal 4D structure, fully existing, past and future, at every moment from our point of view. It may be a few seconds after the Big Bang, but elsewhere in the 4D structure the heat death of the universe is "already" well underway. And elsewhere again, every action any of us will take. There's a sense in which any uncertainty about what you'll do disappears. Either there's an Everettian Many Worlds model, in which you basically end up making _every_ choice that's physically possible in QM. Or there's only one real time-line, but the future bits of it exist "before" you're even around to witness them. I personally hope that something like the growing block universe model ends up being reconcilable with physics (perhaps a theory of quantum gravity will supersede relativity and resolve some issues), leaving us with a dynamic model that preserves the reality of change, in which the past is created in the present moment of becoming, and the future is only a hypothetical, an idea existing in our heads.
@goclbert
3 жыл бұрын
Are there any negative practical implications for the effects of determinism and eternalism on personal responsibility? Surely the most correct view of how people function is useful for building the best possible society? You still punish people not because there is any value in retribution but because it is useful for deterring crime. You worry about uncertainty disappearing but it will never disappear to humans. The way information flows within our eternal universe requires that we be uncertain about the future. By the way, Many World's interpretations are still eternalist. Instead of there being an uncertainty in what the future will be, you can think of it as uncertainty to which eternal universe you exist in. The other worlds aren't created, they always existed and were merely in superposition with each other.
@8s700
3 жыл бұрын
@@goclbert _"Are there any negative practical implications for the effects of determinism and eternalism on personal responsibility?"_ I don't think these ideas being true would have _effects_ on personal responsibility. In discovering these ideas were true, we would understand that personal responsibility doesn't exist. No person is responsible for a deterministic chain of events decided in every detail prior to his existence. _"You worry about uncertainty disappearing but it will never disappear to humans."_ We'll always be uncertain about the future we'll experience, but if we accept hard determinism we accept that the exact course of the future was never truly in doubt, only unknown from our human perspective. All that said, I'm forced to be agnostic on hard determinism. I can doubt it but not disprove it. It appears unfalsifiable. I'm with Lee Smolin et al on the proposition that change and the flow of time are fundamentally real, not mere illusions of human perception. I can doubt many things, but not the utterly basic experiential fact that something is happening. One has to take a wildly anti-empirical stance to reject the evidence of the senses entirely, like the rationalist Parmenides who, through a series of vocal motions, declared that motion is impossible.
@goclbert
3 жыл бұрын
@@8s700 Bear with me for a moment: Chaotic systems are kinds of non-linear systems that evolve in an aperiodic and unpredictable manner. That means they are impossible to predict without calculating everything possible through brute force. Such systems can actually be modeled effectively using random walks. In this sense it does not matter if the truly non-deterministic elements are introduced to the system since the system was already evolving in a manner indistinguishable from a random walk. The digits of Pi can be calculated deterministically yet if I begin listing the digits of Pi from the 1000th place, it would be indistinguishable from a random number generator. For both the eternalist and the presentist, the future is fundamentally uncertain. Humans are trapped within a present-experience. This experience of free will is identical in the system with real indeterminacy and the system with chaotic determinism.
@ObsidianTeen
3 жыл бұрын
Do you think of causation in terms of INUS conditions?
@PessimisticIdealism
3 жыл бұрын
Bigger Hands = Bigger External World 😩
@fanboy8026
3 жыл бұрын
you poor thing 😟
@fanboy8026
3 жыл бұрын
Well done
@jonostake
3 жыл бұрын
I’d love to see Randal come on to answer these questions
@alexlarsen6413
3 жыл бұрын
Why are you a heathen if you believe gods don't exist? Community?
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