But, they insist, this Replica won’t be you. It will merely be someone else, who is exactly like you.
would this qualify as being qualitatively identical but not numerically identical?
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- Dec 2020
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But in see-ing each colour he is not aware of seeing the other
How is this possible?. I know that it is explained after this sentence but I still do not understand how this individual is unaware of both colors
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When someone’s hemispheres have been disconnected, psychologists can thus present to this person two dif-ferent written questions in the two halves of his visual field, and can receive two different answers written by this person’s two hands
I find this very interesting
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- Nov 2020
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Such discover-ies suggest that most of us possess less free will than we tend to think, and they may inform debates about our degrees of responsibility. But they do not show that free will is an illusion
I do not think that free will is something that you can partially have, it is either you have it or you don't
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That is, most people judge that you can have free will and be responsible for your actions even if all of your decisions and actions are entirely caused by earlier events in accord with natural laws
I do not agree with this, if your actions are caused by events in the past how would this be free will?
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f free will is dead, then moral and legal responsibility may be close behind.
I believe this to be true but I would also like to see a snippet of what it would be like because if someone hurts you then you would be inclined to hurt them back and so in order to not get hurt you would try to not hurt others but isn't that like what is happening now minus the punishment of being sent to jail. Now that I am thinking about it, that might be the only difference, there would be no need for the prison system which could actually be somewhat beneficial.
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(a) I did it, and (b) nothing made me do it
can we ever be certain that nothing influenced our decisions?
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For instance, you might have a good job offer in a city you hate, and you might be utterly torn and have to decide without knowing what you should do.
wouldn't you just weigh the pros and cons and then wouldn't that mean that you do know what you should do. And if it is the case that not knowing what to do came before having to decide, that is how all decisions happen.
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So, for instance, if you’re faced with a choice between tomato soup and mushroom soup, and if you’re torn as to which one to get, then you dowant to engage your conscious free will. But you don’t want to bother doing this when you’re picking between two identical cans of tomato soup. You’d look like an imbecile, standing there in the aisle of the supermarket waffling between the two cans, weighing them in your hands to see whether perhaps one of them had a bit more soup in it
lol, this is funny to be because as I mentioned above, I do look at identical canned items to see which is the best. I look to see which might look cleaner or not have any dents etc so I guess I'm just crazy for doing that?
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Don’t judicial hearings to decide questions of blame or diminished responsibility make as little sense for a faulty man as for a Fawlty car?
not necessarily, a car and a human do not have the same features. When you say to a man " do not steal" he has the ability to listen and make a choice while you can't say to a car "don't run out of gas" and expect it to listen. With this said, the decision this man makes will be a product of nature and nurture.
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however heinous, is in principle to be blamed on antecedent conditions acting through the accused’s physiology, heredity and environment.
This goes with what I was saying above. I believe this to be true
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When a child robs an old lady, should we blame the child himself or his parents? Or his school? Negligent social workers? I
I think that in this situation it is everyone's fault, it is a combination of all that produced that outcome.
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When a computer malfunctions, we do not punish it. We track down the problem and fix it, usually by replacing a damaged com-ponent, either in hardware or software
I understand this but 1) It is not always possible to find the problem or fix it after it is found 2) what happens after you do find the problem, try multiple times to fix it but nothing changes ?
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where there is awareness, there is consciousness, and vice versa
so consciousness is not awareness but instead involves awareness
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oscillations
- movement back and forth at a regular speed
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Mary does not know: what it is like to experi-ence a color such as red.
does everyone have different experiences or emotions when looking at colors? For example when I look at the color red, I don't feel anything I just see red but does this color actually evoke feelings from people? and what do you feel when you look at red?
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Perhaps mind can be defined not as behaviour, but, rather as the inner cause of cer-tain behaviour. Thought is not speech under suitable circumstances, rather it is something within the person which, in suitable circumstances, brings about speech.
I believe this to be true, as humans we do not normally do everything that we think because this might lead to negative outcomes.
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The mind is not an inner arena, it is outward act.
I think that it is both, it is an inner arena that also causes outward acts
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Thought is not an inner process that lies behind, and brings about, the words I speak and write: it is my speaking and writing.
I do not think that this is true. If this is true then what would you call the voice in your head.
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physico-chemical
being physical and chemical
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My mind is apt to wander, and will not yet submit to be restrained within the limits of truth.
I like this because I believe that there are too many different possibilities in the world, too many different unknowns, even what you might think you know might be an unknown, to let your mind be restricted to what is familiar or "known" to you.
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who affirms one alone as true, and denies the others;
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Per-ception is another attribute of the soul; but perception too is impossible without the body; besides, I have fre-quently, during sleep, believed that I perceived objects which I afterward observed I did not in reality perceive. Thinking is another attribute of the soul;
So is this person attributing mental characteristics to the soul? or are they saying that the mind and soul are the same thing? because I think that perception and thinking are functions of the mind.
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and of my previous opinion I will retrench all that can in the least be invalidated by the grounds of doubt I have adduced, in order that there may at length remain noth-ing but what is certain and indubitable.
But isn't being doubtful a good thing?, doesn't being doubtful mean that you are actually questioning things instead of accepting them how they are?
Don't you have to be doubtful before you can find out that something is certain?
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Indeed the most acute and fascinating of meta-physical problems arise in the attempt to reconcile the results of major disciplines with each othe
so is this how philosophy continues after science?
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philosophy comes before science.
okay so since scientists usually ask question that they do not know the answer to then set out to find the answer, would that make them philosophers and then would that mean that scientists and anyone who asks questions then set out to find the answer are philosophers in some sense ( I don't remember where i'm going with this and I might have just confused myself with a very simple concept)
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The fact is that, logically speaking, philosophy begins before science does, and goes on after science has completed its work.
how does it go on after science have completed it's work if science answered the question philosophy was asking
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custom.
I think that customs and traditions while may be good because they are apart of one's identity are the main things that make people closed minded.
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Thus, to a great extent, the uncertainty of philosophy is more apparent than real: those questions which are already capable of definite answers are placed in the sciences, while those only to which, at present, no definite answer can be given, remain to form the residue which is called philosophy.
and so philosophy is the foundation for all other sciences? because philosophy would be the the questions that are asked in the beginning and when these questions get answered we then turn them into or place it into a branch of science.
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as soon as definite knowledge concerning any subject becomes possible, this subject ceases to be called phi-losophy, and becomes a separate science.
So is this saying that philosophy only applies where no answers can be found?
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Thistheory envisions the mind as an emergent property of individually unconscious neuralcells when they interact in complex ways, analogous to wetness as an emergentproperty of water molecules, or life as an emergent property of amino acid moleculeswhich are individually lifeless (Searle 1992; Schick & Vaughn 1999a)
huh?
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necessary and sufficientcondition for personhood
Necessary condition and Sufficient condition - A necessary condition is a condition that must be present for an event to occur. A sufficient condition is a condition or set of conditions that will produce the event. A necessary condition must be there, but it alone does not provide sufficient cause for the occurrence of the event. https://www.txstate.edu/philosophy/resources/fallacy-definitions/Confusion-of-Necessary.html#:~:text=A%20necessary%20condition%20is%20a,the%20occurrence%20of%20the%20event.
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If the soul is immaterial, then it can have nolocation in space, and thus cannot be contained by any physical brain or body
I am a little confused by this statement. why can it not have a location? how would we then claim it as ours if it has no location? wouldn't that mean that we don't own a soul and instead we all have different souls ? or are sharing souls?
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metaphysical
Definition-an idea, doctrine, or posited reality outside of human sense perception https://www.pbs.org/faithandreason/gengloss/metaph-body.html
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necessary and sufficient condition
Necessary condition and Sufficient condition - A necessary condition is a condition that must be present for an event to occur. A sufficient condition is a condition or set of conditions that will produce the event. A necessary condition must be there, but it alone does not provide sufficient cause for the occurrence of the event. https://www.txstate.edu/philosophy/resources/fallacy-definitions/Confusion-of-Necessary.html#:~:text=A%20necessary%20condition%20is%20a,the%20occurrence%20of%20the%20event.
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This theory envisions the mind as an emergent property of individually unconscious neural cells when they interact in complex ways, analogous to wetness as an emergent property of water molecules, or life as an emergent property of amino acid molecules which are individually lifeless (Searle 1992; Schick & Vaughn 1999a).
huh?
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If the soul is immaterial, then it can have no location in space, and thus cannot be contained by any physical brain or body.
I am a little confused by this statement. why can it not have a location? how would we then claim it as ours if it has no location? wouldn't that mean that we don't own a soul and instead we all have different souls ? or are sharing souls?
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metaphysical
Definition-an idea, doctrine, or posited reality outside of human sense perception https://www.pbs.org/faithandreason/gengloss/metaph-body.html
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docs.google.com docs.google.com
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Metaphysical definition-an idea, doctrine, or posited reality outside of human sense perception https://www.pbs.org/faithandreason/gengloss/metaph-body.html
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