On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Craig Weinberg <[email protected]> wrote:
>> If you say that free will is compatible with determinism then you are >> an compatibilist, otherwise you are an incompatibilist. Why do you try >> to make the discussion difficult by refusing to agree on terminology? > > > Because the terminology is ideologically loaded and makes the truth > impossible to address, obviously. It's like you are demanding that I agree > that electricity is either the work of God or the Devil. We need to agree on terminology if we're going to have a discussion at all. Have aliens visited the Earth? We need to agree that an "alien" is a being born on another planet. It doesn't mean we agree on the facts, but we need to at least speak the same language! >> It seems, again, that you believe it is a priori impossible for >> consciousness and determinism to co-exist. If we can't get beyond this >> then there is not much point in further debate. > > > Determinism is what consciousness looks like from the crippled third person > perspective. They coexist in the sense that the old woman and the young > woman coexist in the famous ambiguous drawing. So, do you believe that it possible that an entity which is deterministic from a third person perspective could be conscious, or do you believe that an entity which is deterministic from a third person perspective could not possibly be conscious? -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
