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- Wed May 22, 2024 4:31 am
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Seeing Things Differently -DanP the apologist excuse.
- Replies: 302
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Re: Seeing Things Differently -DanP the apologist excuse.
But without pain how would we know if something was wrong or if we were in danger? A tesla knows when it's in danger of being hit and reacts more effectively than most drivers, all without feeling anything. If a Tesla already has a stellar avoidance system, why innovate by adding (epiphenomenal) pa...
- Wed May 22, 2024 12:28 am
- Forum: Spirit Paradise
- Topic: doubtingthomas’s topics MEGATHREAD
- Replies: 1296
- Views: 59080
Re: doubtingthomas’s topics MEGATHREAD
In the UK, I don't think saying that "16 year olds are adults" would be the worst thing to say. Before responding, I looked up UK law. I figured it wasn't my place to speculate on how you misrepresented what he possibly could have said, and so I left it at that. Now that you've gone there, I'm even...
- Tue May 21, 2024 6:48 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Seeing Things Differently -DanP the apologist excuse.
- Replies: 302
- Views: 8496
Re: Seeing Things Differently -DanP the apologist excuse.
I think epiphenomenalism is the high point of a position that is hard for me to accept. If nature went through the trouble of creating an entirely new ontology called mind, which feels pain and (seems to) perform calculations, then the point would seem to have the calculating part have a causal role...
- Tue May 21, 2024 5:49 pm
- Forum: Spirit Paradise
- Topic: doubtingthomas’s topics MEGATHREAD
- Replies: 1296
- Views: 59080
Re: doubtingthomas’s topics MEGATHREAD
Given how measured and careful Chap is in his communication on the board, I find it an extraordinary claim to say that Chap said in a universal, unqualified statement that 16-year-olds are adults in any thread where DT is participating or might possibly participate, as that would be incredibly reckl...
- Mon May 20, 2024 11:43 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Seeing Things Differently -DanP the apologist excuse.
- Replies: 302
- Views: 8496
Re: Seeing Things Differently -DanP the apologist excuse.
Do animals have free will? Do bacteria have free will? Would free will exist without consciousness? I've never heard of free will posited without consciousness, but consciousness doesn't necessarily mean free will. Consciousness is necessary but not sufficient for free will. A nervous system is nec...
- Mon May 20, 2024 10:37 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Seeing Things Differently -DanP the apologist excuse.
- Replies: 302
- Views: 8496
Re: Seeing Things Differently -DanP the apologist excuse.
LDS theology doesn't require you to believe in free will; LDS doctrine teaches that there is moral agency. There's a distinction between free will in all aspects and moral agency. That's a possibility. So far MG hasn't spoken about "free will" proper. (and I don't mean anything secular here, free w...
- Mon May 20, 2024 3:53 am
- Forum: Spirit Paradise
- Topic: Visiting Caldwell Idaho Soon
- Replies: 5
- Views: 331
Re: Visiting Caldwell Idaho Soon
Local library. Best ever, no woke books. They've got the Bible and good stuff like that.
- Sun May 19, 2024 6:32 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Does the Interpreter Foundation Have Colonialist Ambitions?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 6107
Re: Does the Interpreter Foundation Have Colonialist Ambitions?
At least he's there.There is Bradshaw smiling with his arm around these humble members
- Sun May 19, 2024 4:08 am
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Seeing Things Differently -DanP the apologist excuse.
- Replies: 302
- Views: 8496
Re: Seeing Things Differently -DanP the apologist excuse.
MG, I can try to adapt to what a person is trying to get at in their views about free will, even though I think the idea of free will in general is nonsense. Your discussion of free will wouldn't help DCP much in his bitter and misguided war against Calvinism, for instance. He wouldn't be able to ta...
- Sun May 19, 2024 1:44 am
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: The Biblical prophets were Mormons
- Replies: 10
- Views: 474
Re: The Biblical prophets were Mormons
I haven't discussed what's going on in church in a long time with active members. I'd be very surprised if this is on anybody's radar. Bruce R. is a good baseline for what Mormons believe(d), and I've never, ever heard about this. The parts about the patriarchs and multiple restorations and getting ...