Free Will and Determinism Necessitate Eachother

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Terrapin Station wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 4:10 pm
Eodnhoj7 wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 4:07 pm
Terrapin Station wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 1:41 pm "Determinism" is the view that all phenomena are determined.

"Freedom" (and "free will" as a subset of it) is the view that there are at least some phenomena that are not determined.

Those two positions are mutually exclusive. If you think that all phenomena are determined, then it can't be the case that some phenomena are free.

If you think that at least some phenomena are free, then you can't think that all phenomena are determined.
You did not read the beginning post then.

If a choice is made then a cause and effect chain is built upon that chain thus necessitating determinism stemming from free will.

Dually if everything is determined then this conversation and observation of free will is determined therefore making it determined free will is observed hence exists.
If a choice is possible, determinism doesn't obtain, because determinism means that ALL phenomena are deterministic; hence choices aren't possible under determinism (only the illusion of a choice would be possible).
It is impossible to have an illusion of choice as that illusion would require deception and deception is a choice between truth an falsity.
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Eodnhoj7 wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 4:18 pm
Terrapin Station wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 4:10 pm
Eodnhoj7 wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 4:07 pm
You did not read the beginning post then.

If a choice is made then a cause and effect chain is built upon that chain thus necessitating determinism stemming from free will.

Dually if everything is determined then this conversation and observation of free will is determined therefore making it determined free will is observed hence exists.
If a choice is possible, determinism doesn't obtain, because determinism means that ALL phenomena are deterministic; hence choices aren't possible under determinism (only the illusion of a choice would be possible).
It is impossible to have an illusion of choice as that illusion would require deception and deception is a choice between truth an falsity.
Then it would be impossible for determinism to obtain.
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Terrapin Station wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 6:47 pm
Eodnhoj7 wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 4:18 pm
Terrapin Station wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 4:10 pm

If a choice is possible, determinism doesn't obtain, because determinism means that ALL phenomena are deterministic; hence choices aren't possible under determinism (only the illusion of a choice would be possible).
It is impossible to have an illusion of choice as that illusion would require deception and deception is a choice between truth an falsity.
Then it would be impossible for determinism to obtain.
To obtain what exactly?
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Eodnhoj7 wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 4:04 pm What you fail to see is that real phenomenon exist as real and imaginary exist as imaginary.
No, no...we "see" what you're trying to say: it's just unfortunately confused. It's just wrong.

That you fail, or choose to fail, to distinguish between the really-existing and the only imaginary has to be a puzzle to us all. But there's no next step, if that's where you are.
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Eodnhoj7 wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 7:19 pm
Terrapin Station wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 6:47 pm
Eodnhoj7 wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 4:18 pm

It is impossible to have an illusion of choice as that illusion would require deception and deception is a choice between truth an falsity.
Then it would be impossible for determinism to obtain.
To obtain what exactly?
lol--"obtain" is another way of saying "to exist" or "to be instantiated."
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Immanuel Can wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 8:28 pm
Eodnhoj7 wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 4:04 pm What you fail to see is that real phenomenon exist as real and imaginary exist as imaginary.
No, no...we "see" what you're trying to say: it's just unfortunately confused. It's just wrong.

That you fail, or choose to fail, to distinguish between the really-existing and the only imaginary has to be a puzzle to us all. But there's no next step, if that's where you are.
All exists as part of the mind and as part of the mind, whether empirically or abstractly observed, still necessitates that if something is observed then there is a least a degree of existence to it.

Tell me how you differentiate between real and imaginary.
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Terrapin Station wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 8:34 pm
Eodnhoj7 wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 7:19 pm
Terrapin Station wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 6:47 pm

Then it would be impossible for determinism to obtain.
To obtain what exactly?
lol--"obtain" is another way of saying "to exist" or "to be instantiated."
Yet determinism is necessary for free will to exist given one cannot make a choice without effects resulting from it.
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Eodnhoj7 wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 8:35 pm All exists as part of the mind and as part of the mind...
Nope.

If you're shot, you'll be in agony, and maybe die. Your "imagining" you weren't shot won't help you.
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Immanuel Can wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 8:43 pm
Eodnhoj7 wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 8:35 pm All exists as part of the mind and as part of the mind...
Nope.

If you're shot, you'll be in agony, and maybe die. Your "imagining" you weren't shot won't help you.
Actually it will help you push through the pain and maintain a clearer mind to receive help. This is much like an athlete ignoring the pain to reach a higher state of athleticism.

Dually being shot in turn affects the mind where the mind forms an image of you being shot through thought and memory thus allowing you to know you were shot. We know reality through the interpretation of the senses under the mind. Without mind there is nothing to interpret to sensations thus rendering them meaningless.
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Eodnhoj7 wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 8:54 pm
Immanuel Can wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 8:43 pm
Eodnhoj7 wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 8:35 pm All exists as part of the mind and as part of the mind...
Nope.

If you're shot, you'll be in agony, and maybe die. Your "imagining" you weren't shot won't help you.
Actually it will help you push through the pain and maintain a clearer mind to receive help.
Yes, well...why don't you try it? :lol: See how that works for you.
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Immanuel Can wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 9:00 pm
Eodnhoj7 wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 8:54 pm
Immanuel Can wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 8:43 pm
Nope.

If you're shot, you'll be in agony, and maybe die. Your "imagining" you weren't shot won't help you.
Actually it will help you push through the pain and maintain a clearer mind to receive help.
Yes, well...why don't you try it? :lol: See how that works for you.
Athletes already push through the pain by forming images, ie meditation, through it.
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Eodnhoj7 wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 9:05 pm Athletes already push through the pain by forming images, ie meditation, through it.
Yes, well...nail your hand to the floor, then pretend you haven't and just walk away, and see how it works for you. Then you'll understand the difference between reality and imagination, I guarantee you.
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Eodnhoj7 wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 8:36 pm
Terrapin Station wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 8:34 pm
Eodnhoj7 wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 7:19 pm

To obtain what exactly?
lol--"obtain" is another way of saying "to exist" or "to be instantiated."
Yet determinism is necessary for free will to exist given one cannot make a choice without effects resulting from it.
It's as if you didn't read my earlier posts.
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Immanuel Can wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 9:19 pm
Eodnhoj7 wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 9:05 pm Athletes already push through the pain by forming images, ie meditation, through it.
Yes, well...nail your hand to the floor, then pretend you haven't and just walk away, and see how it works for you. Then you'll understand the difference between reality and imagination, I guarantee you.
Look at the mentally ill person tormented by thoughts and say the thoughts don't exist because they do.
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Terrapin Station wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 9:27 pm
Eodnhoj7 wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 8:36 pm
Terrapin Station wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 8:34 pm
lol--"obtain" is another way of saying "to exist" or "to be instantiated."
Yet determinism is necessary for free will to exist given one cannot make a choice without effects resulting from it.
It's as if you didn't read my earlier posts.
And what was so valuable about your earlier posts?
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