Exploring free will vs. determinism and how small factors shape our consciousness, suggesting our choices are influenced by external factors

Hiebert concluded the first chapter of his book by identifying both internal and external attacks against positivism.

Thank you to (Jonathan Franzel) for sponsoring this video. Chapters: 00:00:00 Introduction & Foundations 00:08:29 Human Nature in Popular Culture 00:17:26 An Occult Sciences Approach 00:24:12 Holistic

Determinism is true, we can't actually judge people for stuff they had no influence over, life feels like we can control every decision while every decision in the end is predetermined. Only way out of

I'm somewhat perplexed that I know people who are (rightly) critics of the concept of tabula rasa who are also proponents of libertarian free will. Yes, most philosophers are compatiblists; so, I'm only

As in the sense that you have the power of contrary choice in any given scenario? I.e. choosing between chocolate or vanilla ice cream I do not believe man has this capability but would be interested to learn how you believe that would work. Please, share your thoughts in your answer.

Ich habe unter einem Artikel eines Wissenschaftlers/ Deterministen einen sehr guten Kommentar entdeckt: Als Wissenschaftler ist man folgenden Weg gegangen: Man hat Systeme untersucht und festgestellt,

"You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm." - Sam Harris When Christopher Hitchens was asked if he believed in free will, he simply replied, "I have

Free will has to be among the weirdest concepts. We take it for granted whilst simultaneously not talking it for granted. We feel, at a gut level that we have free will and base a lot of our behavior and

Something I've been most interested in lately is presentism, the philosophical theory that states that only the present exists, and that the past and future are therefore unreal. The reasons are purely

Determinism is a philosophical doctrine that holds that every physical event, including human thought and action, is causally determined by the unbreakable cause-consequence chain, and therefore, the current

These cycles just fuck with my head right now. Especially this one, which just seems like the same but one level up (x10). Seems waay too deterministic. Probably self-fullfilling prophecys. Especially

For most of eternity I did not exist. During that time there was no me to know anything, or to care about anything, or to worry about anything. And so, that was the only time that I was at peace. Then,

When contemplating determinism, a philosophical theme that many feel ruined the second Matrix movie, many find it almost nihilistic in nature. I can certainly see how that comparison can be drawn and why

In his book, The Language Instinct, Steven Pinker has an entire chapter that doesn’t falsify but mocks and ridicules the Theory of Linguistic Determinism. I am a soft Linguistic Determinist. I know that

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When talking about free will, Sam Harris has used this analogy: If someone asks you to name a movie, you don’t choose whatever movie pops into your head. The thought just pops into your head (for whatever

Stimulus is all around us. It stimulates our actions and our behavior. There has been a long argument on free will and determinism. Some people have a feeling that they have a choice. A choice to make

THE CHOICE: FREE WILL OR A MULTIVERSE In this essay I shall present an argument that, since we live in a universe that conforms to Einsteinian cosmology, we must either deny the existence of the multiverse