FlowVoid

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do animals react during a total solar eclipse? Scientists plan to find out in April⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because the vast majority of animals who see the upcoming eclipse will never have seen one before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Many physicists assume we must live in a multiverse – but their basic maths may be wrong⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, that’s what it makes it such an effective barrier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Many physicists assume we must live in a multiverse – but their basic maths may be wrong⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, but there are countless planets within that space that might contain life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Many physicists assume we must live in a multiverse – but their basic maths may be wrong⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Who says the universe is empty? It’s mostly inaccessible by humans, but it might be teeming with life. Though not necessarily intelligent life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Many physicists assume we must live in a multiverse – but their basic maths may be wrong⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The point is that you are assuming “inaccessibility” is incompatible with a universe “made for life”. But it’s entirely possible that inaccessibility is a feature, not a bug.

  At the risk of anthopomorphizing, every nonhuman life I’m responsible for is given very little access to move elsewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Many physicists assume we must live in a multiverse – but their basic maths may be wrong⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  why put so goddamn much of it out of reach

  You’re assuming that it was only tuned for human life and/or that life is meant to leave its home planet.

  A gardener designs a garden so that each plant has a place and doesn’t let any plant take over the whole garden. If “someone” designed this place, it is entirely possible that we are stuck in a corner for a reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, We Have Free Will. No, We Absolutely Do Not⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  if we add true randomness to an input-based decision, it stops being predetermined, but there’s still a logically conclusive choice you’re going to make, based on the incomplete inputs you have. You cannot ‘freely’ decide to not pick that choice

  I think you are contradicting yourself. If you cannot freely choose something else, then your choice is predetermined.

  Whereas if a choice stops being predetermined, then there is no “logically conclusive choice” that you are definitely going to make. There is a range of possible choices, one of them is chosen by you, and the others could have been chosen but weren’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, We Have Free Will. No, We Absolutely Do Not⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it’s that simple. Decisions can be based on more than one factor. Nobody doubts that the things around you affect your decision, the question is whether they fully determine your decision.

  And when someone asks “What do you want to eat tonight?”, intuitively it doesn’t seem that your answer is fully determined at the moment the question is asked - otherwise why would it take so long to reach the answer? Nor is it random, because asking it again wouldn’t produce a different answer.

  Which is not to say that free will definitely does or does not exist. But you’ve described all decisions as necessarily predetermined or random, and that is a false dichotomy. The third possibility is none of the above, which implies free will.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, We Have Free Will. No, We Absolutely Do Not⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I deleted my comparison to Harvard. Its most relevant peers are Oxford, Cambridge, and a few other schools in the UK, there is even a program for reciprocal granting of degrees.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, We Have Free Will. No, We Absolutely Do Not⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  LOL, fair enough!

  (But just in case anyone has doubts about Mitchell’s academic affiliation, rest assured that Trinity College, aka the University of Dublin, is the top research university in Ireland. Trinity College/University of Dublin is older than Harvard, and like Harvard was a seminary in the 1600s but has long since moved beyond that).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, We Have Free Will. No, We Absolutely Do Not⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I am aware it’s real, but I’m not aware why you think it specifically applies to Mitchell.

  Do you not like his conclusions? Because that would be confirmation bias - on your part.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, We Have Free Will. No, We Absolutely Do Not⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Confirming what? Neuroscience?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, We Have Free Will. No, We Absolutely Do Not⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What? Neuroscience has a lot to do with Mitchell’s argument.