Re: Compatibilism

2010-11-19 Thread 1Z
On Nov 18, 6:31 am, Rex Allen rexallen31...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 16 Nov 2010, at 04:51, Rex Allen wrote: On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: ? Are you saying that it is obvious

Re: Compatibilism

2010-11-19 Thread 1Z
On Nov 19, 3:11 am, Rex Allen rexallen31...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: Rex, Your post reminded me of the quote (of which I cannot recall the source) where someone asked Who pushes who around inside the brain?, meaning is it

Re: Probability, Necessity, and Infinity

2010-11-19 Thread 1Z
On Nov 18, 5:10 am, Rex Allen rexallen31...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 5:38 AM, 1Z peterdjo...@yahoo.com wrote: On Nov 16, 3:27 am, Rex Allen rexallen31...@gmail.com wrote: If logic and reason reduce to causal laws, then ultimately causal laws alone explain the result.

Re: Compatibilism

2010-11-19 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 19 Nov 2010, at 13:36, 1Z wrote: We don't invoke thought and reason to explain the abilities and behavior of chess playing computers Sometimes we do...see Dennett;s intentional stance key point, I agree. I would say we always do that. No one will explain why a chess playing computers

Re: Probability, Necessity, and Infinity

2010-11-19 Thread Brent Meeker
On 11/19/2010 6:47 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 18 Nov 2010, at 06:10, Rex Allen wrote: In this case, if we had sufficient mental capacity there would no need to think in terms of trees or forests - we could think exclusively in terms quarks, electrons, photons, and whatnot. Thinking in