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For completeness, a short summary of a personal attack that I have had to endure in the past two years, which is still ongoing. As mentioned, I am author of a critical blog named https://www.zielenknijper.nl/images/zielenknijper-forumsource.png (shrink in Dutch). I am also founder of an eco -project...

The Big Bang theory appears to be at the foundation of many aspects of modern day thinking and practices, including the idea that the mind originates from the physical. There are some indications that Albert Einstein may have been forced to admit that his theory for an 'infinite Universe' was wrong,...

Hi and welcome to the forum. I also was banned from a couple of other forums. Don't worry, nobody bans you here. Thank you for the welcome! As it appears, I am about to be banned on forums.space.com for addressing the subject that the Big Bang theory is considered a religion by an increasing amount...

Iran is facing an extreme water crisis and scientists predict that the situation could escalate. Iran's groundwater depletion is reaching crisis levels, warn researchers The researchers write that mismanagement by the country's authorities is exacerbating existing strains on the semi-arid country's ...

Choice ... - Relying on choice to answer why is an intellectual cop-out. - Choice is just a roadblock to understanding. - Choice is a stopping point beyond which lies the answer to why. - Choice is a rest-stop for those too ostensibly tuckered out to go beyond and find understanding. - Every choice...

Choice ... - Relying on choice to answer why is an intellectual cop-out. - Choice is just a roadblock to understanding. - Choice is a stopping point beyond which lies the answer to why. - Choice is a rest-stop for those too ostensibly tuckered out to go beyond and find understanding. - Every choice...

It is important to keep in mind that the root of the idea of replacing retributive justice is free will skepticism, the idea that people are not responsible for their crimes, and thus, that one should look at a science to 'know' why someone commits a crime. ... Psychiatry in the Netherlands has bee...

So-called retributive justice is just silly. It would be nice if you could get the burglar to buy his victim all new items to replace what he stole, or the swindler to repay his victims, but if they could raise that kind of money honestly they would not have become thieves in the first place, and i...

It is certainly good to intend to improve the world .... There is hardly are more evil idea than the belief one should attempt to improve the world. The worst evils ever foisted on humanity have been perpetrated by those bent on improving the world. There is nothing wrong with the world. If you are...

I personally would not agree that a belief in free will will diminish over time similar to religions. Like with the concept wisdom, or with valuing that must logically precede the senses, what it is that makes a human free may reside in a context that precedes that what can be comprehended by empiri...

The justification for my belief in free will is easy: the neurons in my brain fire in just such a way that my mouth opens and I say I have free will. What choice do I have? What about people without a brain? (2016) Meet The Man Who Lives Normally With Damage to 90% of His Brain " Any theory of...

Skepdick wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 3:36 pm If reality is determined then so are my "contradictions". Your objection too was determined.

What do you want us to do about it? Exist in a different reality?

What about the opposite, the 'belief' in free will? What would be the argumentative substantiation to justify such a belief?

henry quirk wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 4:16 pm Does free will exist?

Yes. More accurately, free wills exist: each person is a free will (a causal agent); no one has free will.

Can you provide an argumentative substantiation for that idea?

Free Will Skepticism lays at the basis of the field psychiatry. Actually, the opposite is true. Psychiatry assumes that if the human mind can be changed, then the patient's life can be changed. It assumes that while he was an alcoholic, for example, he could be sober, if the psychiatrist induces th...

There is a growing movement that believes that human behavior can be reduced to brain chemistry and that there is no free will or guilt. According to this movement, criminal law should ideally be replaced by preventive measures such as psychiatric treatment. Already this "growing movement"...