One thing which worries me from time to time is the prospect of sustaining a head injury or developing a tumor which drastically changes your behaviour or personality.
That Sapolsky bloke Stan likes mentions a case like that in one of his lectures, some guy murdering someone or having an affair or something and turning out to have had a tumor putting pressure on his brain and causing behavioural changes.
Complete agreement over terms is not a pre-requisite for progress. Why not define some terms yourself and make an argument.Free will versus determinism is a mirage, a linguistic confusion and not a philosophical problem proper
As soon as you drill down into what you mean, nobody disagrees about the relevant facts. The problem is that, at higher levels of conceptual abstraction, no one agrees about the verbiage.
It's a very tedious issue and, tbh, a sure sign of pseuds in the area.
As for the question being an airy fairy inconsequential matter, we've literally just had Corpsey changing his perspective on major life events on account of his changing philosophical position.Free will versus determinism is a mirage, a linguistic confusion and not a philosophical problem proper
As soon as you drill down into what you mean, nobody disagrees about the relevant facts. The problem is that, at higher levels of conceptual abstraction, no one agrees about the verbiage.
It's a very tedious issue and, tbh, a sure sign of pseuds in the area.
One thing which worries me from time to time is the prospect of sustaining a head injury or developing a tumor which drastically changes your behaviour or personality.
That Sapolsky bloke Stan likes mentions a case like that in one of his lectures, some guy murdering someone or having an affair or something and turning out to have had a tumor putting pressure on his brain and causing behavioural changes.
Do you decide to believe in it or does it just happen?I don't believe in it but I do believe in the need to believe in it.