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Impenitent wrote:ask hume

-Imp

why?

I like to run this sequence of statements through my head in an attempt to prove the absence of free will, so here goes: 1. I cannot consciously influence events that have taken place before the present moment. 2. I cannot consciously influence events that take place in the instantaneous present. (...

Thats ok. If you dont understand what i said. Your' comprehension' is so 'not of import' as to be a farce if you dont want to talk about it, its ok. out of arguments is also ok. ps. if you want to say prediction and want not to say scientific prediction then you have to be more precise. that is all...

"scientific prediction would be the greatest curse laid in a person? science is making predictions? science is greatest curse?" Not once did i say 'science'. you did. prediction is usually classified under paranormal. Though stochastics and the intuitive collation of past and present to f...

You can't use the past to predict the future because you assume that the future will be like the past just because the past was like the past of the past. It basically comes down to using the conclusion of "the future will be like the past," because the future of the past was like that pa...

Impenitent wrote:it begs the question

-Imp

what question it begs?

Impenitent wrote:the past cannot predict the future...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction

-Imp

why the past cannot predict the future?

scientific prediction would be the greatest curse laid in a person? science is making predictions? science is greatest curse? He is calling predictions of the future a curse, as one would perceive a result, but have no chance of changing it. I'm sorry but invoking a terrible television show from my...

scientific prediction would be the greatest curse laid in a person?
science is making predictions?
science is greatest curse?

"ex testimonio quodlibet". logically logic is cool. But you dont think that way 'in extremis' We as animals think 1st AM I GOING TO DIE. "We as animals think 1st AM I GOING TO DIE" is not logical thinking? Telling the future.. Or fortunes if you want to belittle it. look up STOC...

ok, thanks. i just learned some logic from wikipedia and see your point much much better now with my bad english skills. still. it is logical, that illogical approach gives illogical answers. and i think it is logical, that (2)dialetheism approach gives (1)(3)(4)"Ex falso quodlibet". i thi...

from (1) follows that we can not accept (2).
logical approach.

Non-sequitur! That man has not found something, doesn't necessarily indicate, that it doesn't exist. The secrets of mind and consciousness still escapes man's science, so you cannot attest with certainty. But as to robots, they are just smarter washing machines, they shall never be as capable as ma...

You're not listening, the man animal reinvents himself, and as you just indicated, a robot needs man to help it do so. A simple one celled animal has an innate chemical intelligence, consciousness, while a comparable single celled robot would not/could not exist, to reproduce itself nor self learn ...

As man did, build a robot as simple as the first animal ever on earth, and watch that it doesn't evolve, not only as man did, but at all, as it's impossible. So as man did, somewhere in the universe, you believe that robots are springing to life from chemical ooze? And that is the difference my fri...