User talk:Rwburden

Reverend Black Percy (talk) 13:02, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

Free will is dead
There's no evidence that human actions can transcend determinism. We are locked into physicality. Moral consequences -- like the worthfulness of science and morality itself -- don't count as evidence for free will. If free will genuinely doesn't exist, then doesn't your whole argument crumble? 23:42, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Writing as someone relatively well versed in analytic philosophy; the above quoted sentence appears to imply a paradox.


 * "No need" to advocate the scientific method? Assuming perfect determinism, you'd have no choice but to do whatever it is that you would be doing. "Need" (so to speak) is all there would be!


 * Any and all attempts to do (or not do) certain things in the attempt to "break free" of determinism would themselves be perfectly pre-ordained — unavoidable, even. You'd only be doing them because you wouldn't have free will to begin with.


 * Again — assuming unquantified determinism (e.g. "free will is DEAD"). Reverend Black Percy (talk) 00:55, 14 April 2017 (UTC)