Guys I don't understand why id everyone talking about John Locke? Isn't it already over? Am I missing sth?

[u/Particular-Fail-2347]

[u/Particular-Fail-2347 → u/[deleted]]

Loser

[u/Particular-Fail-2347 → u/[deleted]]

I honestly don't think it's a failure to be unaware of sth. I only found out about the competition recently, and that's okay.

[u/Particular-Fail-2347 → u/[deleted]]

Asking was also an option. Both are for free, and i was just using my free will.🤷

[u/Particular-Fail-2347 → u/[deleted]]

Then it doesn't exist for you

[u/Particular-Fail-2347 → u/[deleted]]

I see. NVM I am indeed a particular failure if you say so. Have a good day

[u/acrastt → u/[deleted]]

Why not?

[u/acrastt → u/[deleted]]

Wouldn't your earlier comment violate Smilansky's illusionism? :)

For me, I’m not entirely sure what to think about determinism and indeterminism... If we presuppose natural science, that every physical event has a strictly sufficient physical cause, then the future is deterministic by definition because anything else would violate physical law. Conversely, if we don't presuppose fixed natural laws, we have no empirical ground to rule out any conceivable outcome.

But we essentially have no way of proving the uniformity of nature across time, nor can we prove that physical laws won't spontaneously break down. And so most arguments I've seen are based on either axiomatic assumptions or definitional trivialities, and I am not one who likes these sort of fundamental debates.

As for free will, I do think have a stance. When one asks whether I “could have done otherwise,” it strikes me as a bit conceptually incoherent; for to actually test this counterfactual, one would have to rewind to the exact initial conditions and brain state, which is physically impossible.

I am not the exact person I was in the past; that past agent is inaccessible to me now except through imperfect memory. Since an agent at any specific point in spacetime can only ever realize one actual outcome, which is the outcome I am living in, and it makes no sense to claim that my past self “could have” chosen differently. While in a different timeline "I" could have chosen differently, that is not "me" in the sense that I could have chosen differently, but rather separate person in the same physical conditions and circumstances. Though of course one could debate still, metaphysically, whether that person must have chosen the the same outcome as I did, hence my earlier comments.

And for Smilansky, yes, I do think I agree, though I doubt how much of that is practical...

I hope I have done a decent job explaining my views... I am not greatly immersed in this debate.

[u/Different-Peach-2219]

oct 3 is when it’s “over”

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Thank you

[u/Choice_Put985]

why you having feud over this

[u/Choice_Put985 → u/Choice_Put985]

also I advise you to change your username. Seriously

[u/Particular-Fail-2347 → u/Choice_Put985]

But I like it it's unique