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Re: Free will and hunger

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 1:00 pm
by chaz wyman
rantal wrote:
chaz wyman wrote:
rantal wrote:Nothing determines my choice, I make it freely

all the best, rantal
You determine your choice, freedom has nothing to do with it.

That really amounts to the same thing, if I determine my choice, I do so freely

all the best, rantal
No not at all.
Tell me something. How do you make a choice? Think carefully and answer.

Re: Free will and hunger

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 3:33 pm
by Mark Question
chaz wyman wrote:
Mark Question wrote: 2. are we deterministic agents in a deterministic world? our fate is there somewhere even if we do not see our future, only expectations, predictions, forecasts?
Determinism does not imply fatalism, nor does it imply that the future is know or can be know with certainty.
It just says that actions are the result of antecedent conditions. That is true for robots as well as humans.
Humans have the ability to act, and to make account of it, robots do not. Humans talk about their choices knowingly, robots do not.
deterministic past does not imply deterministic future? and non-deterministic future implies deterministic past? how?

how do you know what robots can or can not do in the future?

all human abilities are not part of one deterministic world?

Re: Free will and hunger

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 6:17 pm
by rantal
chaz wyman wrote:
You determine your choice, freedom has nothing to do with it.



all the best, rantal
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No not at all.
Tell me something. How do you make a choice? Think carefully and answer.[/quote]

[/i]As I have explained above, I choose freely between reasons. Saying, that such choice is determined is begging the question and advances not your view

all the besyt, rantal[/i]

Re: Free will and hunger

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 7:21 pm
by Mark Question
rantal wrote: [/i]As I have explained above, I choose freely between reasons. Saying, that such choice is determined is begging the question and advances not your view

all the besyt, rantal[/i]
how do you choose freely? do you throw dice?
do you have no reason to choose between reasons? why you choose if you have no reason to choose between reasons?

Re: Free will and hunger

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 7:30 pm
by rantal
None of those, I just choose freely. That is all there is to it. As Witgenstein says, the spade must turn somewhere

all the best, urban

Re: Free will and hunger

Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 12:09 am
by RG1
rantal wrote:None of those, I just choose freely.
Rantal, can I ask then, why did you choose what you chose?
If your choice was left instead of right, why did you choose left?
Was there a reason? or do you not know WHY you chose what you chose?
If you don't know, then how do you know that it was 'you' that chose it?

Re: Free will and hunger

Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 9:16 am
by rantal
RG1 wrote:
rantal wrote:None of those, I just choose freely.
Rantal, can I ask then, why did you choose what you chose?
If your choice was left instead of right, why did you choose left?
Was there a reason? or do you not know WHY you chose what you chose?
If you don't know, then how do you know that it was 'you' that chose it?
It is in the nature of free choice that such questions are no more than language idling.
You see when you ask, "Why did you choose, that which you choose" you beg the question, you smuggle into the question the presumption that my choice is caused by something and it is not.
Reasons do not cause my choice, rather I choose between reasons. You are confusing reasons with causes

all the best, rantal
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Re: Free will and hunger

Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 1:46 pm
by RG1
rantal wrote:
RG1 wrote:
rantal wrote:None of those, I just choose freely.
Rantal, can I ask then, why did you choose what you chose?
If your choice was left instead of right, why did you choose left?
Was there a reason? or do you not know WHY you chose what you chose?
If you don't know, then how do you know that it was 'you' that chose it?
It is in the nature of free choice that such questions are no more than language idling.
You see when you ask, "Why did you choose, that which you choose" you beg the question, you smuggle into the question the presumption that my choice is caused by something and it is not.
Reasons do not cause my choice, rather I choose between reasons. You are confusing reasons with causes

all the best, rantal
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Well then, why DID you choose what you chose, what empowered you to make a choice?

Re: Free will and hunger

Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 3:46 pm
by rantal
Well then, why DID you choose what you chose, what empowered you to make a choice?
I answered that above but here it is again;

It is in the nature of free choice that such questions are no more than language idling.
You see when you ask, "Why did you choose, that which you choose" you beg the question, you smuggle into the question the presumption that my choice is caused by something and it is not.
Reasons do not cause my choice, rather I choose between reasons. You are confusing reasons with causes

I needed no 'empowering' to make free choices it is a function of human consciousness

all the best, rantal


Re: Free will and hunger

Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 5:21 pm
by Mark Question
rantal wrote: It is in the nature of free choice that such questions are no more than language idling.
You see when you ask, "Why did you choose, that which you choose" you beg the question, you smuggle into the question the presumption that my choice is caused by something and it is not.
Reasons do not cause my choice, rather I choose between reasons. You are confusing reasons with causes

I needed no 'empowering' to make free choices it is a function of human consciousness

all the best, rantal
how do you know this: "the presumption that my choice is caused by something and it is not"?
or is it presumption? free choice and free will are presumptions?
are reasons thinking and is thinking causes in brain?

Re: Free will and hunger

Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 5:28 pm
by rantal
Mark Question wrote:
rantal wrote: It is in the nature of free choice that such questions are no more than language idling.
You see when you ask, "Why did you choose, that which you choose" you beg the question, you smuggle into the question the presumption that my choice is caused by something and it is not.
Reasons do not cause my choice, rather I choose between reasons. You are confusing reasons with causes

I needed no 'empowering' to make free choices it is a function of human consciousness

all the best, rantal
how do you know this: "the presumption that my choice is caused by something and it is not"?
or is it presumption? free choice and free will are presumptions?
are reasons thinking and is thinking causes in brain?
Like I said earlier this is just the short version, the full answer is long and technical. Free choice is exactly that it should not be just presumed that it is caused by something

We may think (And thinking is not calculation) of reasons with our mind and no-on e to date has provided a coherent theory to show that the mind and brain are the same thing.

all the best, rantal

Re: Free will and hunger

Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 9:54 pm
by Mark Question
rantal wrote:Like I said earlier this is just the short version, the full answer is long and technical. Free choice is exactly that it should not be just presumed that it is caused by something

We may think (And thinking is not calculation) of reasons with our mind and no-on e to date has provided a coherent theory to show that the mind and brain are the same thing.

all the best, rantal[/i][/color]
where is the full answer? can you post it here?
free choice is logical presumption?
deterministic choice is also logical presumption?
unintelligible or incomprehensible god is logical presumption?

calculation is logical thinking?
philosophy is logical thinking?
logical thinking is deterministic reasoning?
mind and brain are the same being?

Re: Free will and hunger

Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 10:09 pm
by rantal
Why must there be a presumption?
Things that are identical have identical properties (leibniz law) ask yourself this, do mind and brain have identical properties?

all the best, rantal

Re: Free will and hunger

Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 10:15 pm
by reasonvemotion
Free will does not exist or free will does exist.

Why does it have to be "either or?"

Does a person not use both. Sometimes it seems a free will decision and other times an action "determined" by......

It seems to me that both feed off each other.

Re: Free will and hunger

Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 10:19 pm
by rantal
reasonvemotion wrote:Why does it have to be "either or?"

Does a person not use both. Sometimes it seems a free will decision and other times an action "determined" by......

It seems to me that both feed off each other.
Yes, I didn't mean to suggest that all actions require a free choice, in fact much of our activity is habitual or instinctive

all the best, rantal