[FRIAM] alternative response

[thompnickson2 at gmail.com]

Hmmmm!  "because of"?  

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Nicholas Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
Clark University
ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
 


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Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2020 4:10 PM
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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] alternative response

I think you'd be better off if you tossed out the word "pre-determined" entirely. And maybe even "determined". Just don't use those concepts. The problem with those concepts is that they hide a time transient (as well as other scopes ... like a light cone). If you simply stop using that concept and *then* try to ask what you want to ask, I think you'll find a much better formulation of the question.


On 6/16/20 2:58 PM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
> Is the question whether it was "pre-determined?" Or is the question whether
> it was predetermined by Charles??   I have a neighbor who passes my study
> window every afternoon at 4pm with his very floppy cocker spaniel.  Is 
> that event predetermined by the dog (who begs to go out at 3.30), by 
> Scott (who welcomes the distraction), by the clock (which he checks to 
> keep the dog honest), or ....
> 
> I know this because I used to set out for coffee every afternoon at 
> that time, and we would often meet on my doorstep and walk together a 
> few paces down the street.  Because of COVID I don't do that any more.  
> Did COVID determine my change of behavior?  Or did I make a FREE choice.
> 
> I think the freedom of free will is just an ideological matter.  Each 
> of us is supposed to be a master of our behavior and circumstances.  
> Indeed, in some jurisdictions, you can be popped in the loony-bin for 
> not being so.  In which case, I think, the loony bin is where we all belong.  Or perhaps are?
> 
> Anyway, Glen will accuse me of strawmanning again.  Forgive me.  I 
> have been tortured by dualists all my life, and now I am visiting my 
> revengte on all of you.

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