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Notvacka, I believe that these questions are somehow related to determinism. If we suppouse that there was the cause number one in in the very beginning of the world history it means that the first cause wasn't caused by some previous causes and thus had to be the outcome of someone's free will, rig...

What I wanted to say is that it is possible to give such definition of free will which would actually combine the concept of free will and determinism - I think that one of the possible solutions would be soft detereminism (compatibilism) though I know it's been strongly criticised and I'm not a com...

Hello, Notvacka! Thanks for your reply - it seems we have similar views on the subject - but don't you think that the way we perceive free mind strongly affects our way of thinking? I mean isn't it so hard to prove determinism wrong BECAUSE of the deterministic definition of the free mind? I believe...

Hi everybody! I've been thinking about the free will problem for some time and I'd want to ask you something: do you think it is possible to prove that determinism is false ? It may get a little bit tricky because if you try to prove that determinism is false how can you know if the act of proving d...

Do you know the Pam Reynolds case? She died 2 years ago, and she became famous for her out-of-body experience (OBE) during the brain surgery. According to the doctors, there was no brain-wave activity during the operation; however, after the surgery she told about her OOB experience. She said she ha...