The determinist & materialist would dismiss you. Life is just physical process, they'll say. You, as life, are physical process and nuthin' but. Your psyche or self-consciousness or -- as I prefer -- soul is just the result of physical process, and like any other result of physical process is utterly determined.RCSaunders wrote: ↑Sat Jul 31, 2021 5:01 pmIt's only a conundrum if you assume everything is only determined by physical principles. While it must be true that the behavior of all merely physical entities is determined (described by) physical principles, it is equally true that for a very tiny number of physical entities there is another principle that makes them unique. It's called life. While the physical aspects of an organism are determined as all merely physical things are, those aspects of an organism's behavior which we call living is not determined by physical principles but is made possible by them.henry quirk wrote: ↑Sat Jul 31, 2021 4:20 pm It's a conundrum: the causal agent movin' as he chooses thru the agglutinate of causal chains that is Reality.
There's no conundrum unless you accept the physicalist's premise.
You are a bio-robot, they'll say.
For them, there is no conundrum. Acceptin' the physicalist's premise is acceptin' man is Roomba, full stop.
No, the conundrum is only recognizable when the facts -- man is a free will; Reality is determined -- are considered together.
They are irreconcilable.
Neither gives way to the other.
Both are true.
It is what it is.