Post by cupcakes on Mar 17, 2017 21:48:29 GMT
@miccee said: I'm posting that particular link because most of the world's population believes in religious apologias. And the only secular definitions of free will would be ones which admit that our behaviours are pre-determined ('free' will is just defined in such a way that it isn't free in any meaningful sense).
My answer was, as already pointed out, in no way a non sequitur. The fact that we seem to make a choice is evidence, whether you like it or not, or decide to call it "hipster" or continue bungle basics like "non sequitur". And I still don't care about your soup of unwarranted and arbitrary assertions.
And any arguments you attempt against religion are rendered impotent by your free fielding of comically unsound positions and total disregard for probity in service to your quest.We assume that others like us have similar experiences to our own. And what we experience is the most significant evidence, as science has not come close yet to even explaining the mechanisms behind it, much less overturning it, regardless of your great need for a lazy but ineffective weapon to use against your frenemy religion.
And ability to distinguish it from sufficiently advanced fakery in others is orthogonal to whether it exists as we experience with ourselves. As much as you wish, you can't magic wand it away with free assertion and forehead-smacking "logic".
Can neuroscience understand Donkey Kong?