<http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/one-among-many/200901/troubles-with-determinism> The author fails to explain the context within which EHR occurs. The ...
Thanks for sending this, though I take issue with a couple of your points. First, a minor point in that while I agree that academic psychologists will lean...
Hey Tim, I've been following this discussion on and off and I'm not sure i fully understand where the disagreement lies. Do you believe in retributive...
Here's another take on Krueger's blog The troubles with determinism <http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/one-among-many/200901/troubles-wi\ th-determinism>...
Hi James: In answer to your questions: Do you believe in retributive punishment? No Do you believe that a person should feel guilty about the mistakes they...
James: "Do you believe inserting the premise that a person could have done otherwise will make it easier to determine why someone did what they did and how to...
Tim, Agreeing that we could _sometimes_ have done otherwise, as I believe is completely consistent with naturalism, Sometimes? Isn't it always or never...
Do you believe punishing someone is a bad thing the same as killing is still a bad thing when done in times of war? That it is a case of a perceived lesser of...
One thing I think that would help the centre for naturalism is a definition of what options are in a deterministic universe. I've been thinking about this for...
Hi Stephen, If I understand you correctly, what you're saying is that if we think clearly about what having options means, we'll see that choice is *not* ...
Hi Stephen: It seems to me that in most real situations when you're doing a post- mortem on a choice that was taken, it is very useful to have the most ...
Hi Stephen: It seems to me that in most real situations when you're doing a post- mortem on a choice that was taken, it is very useful to have the most ...
Tim, It seems to me that in most real situations when you're doing a post-mortem on a choice that was taken, it is very useful to have the most complete...
?Epistemic and Logical?possibilities. Ok, I'll use the game of cluedo to illustrate what I mean by epistemic and logical possibilities. So the?various murder...
Thanks for the link Will, I've been glancing through and spotted the following. "Those participants who responded as determinists tended also to respond as...
Stephen, I think that in the vast majority of people their existential construct of self is experientially incompatible with determinism. This construct is...
Thanks for the explanation of logical and epistemic possibilities Stephen. I guess both could influence what we choose, irrational beings such as we mostly...
Hi Will, You said "In contrast, the existential construct of self created by Satori (Zen Enlightenment, right brained) is wholly compatible with determinism...
Tim, You ask, "…if anyone thinks I am wrong on the facts I will be grateful to have any misunderstandings pointed out." I am feeling moved to honor your...
 Steve, You write, "The reason I think random mutation is important is that it allowed the evolution of living things…" and yet you supply no evidence...
If you are not sure what is meant by random mutation, how are you able to assert that we all accept it as fact, and then based on that claim paint my statement...
? ?Tim, Having read your posts, I think there are three key issues. I won't stop to go back and find quotes but if you can see that?I've misinterpreted your...
Thanks for the response Steve. It has often struck me that we tend to have disagreements not with our opponents, but with those we largely agree with. That's...
... BRAVO! You have articulated precisely one of the recommendations I plan to eventually write up in a list of suggestions to Tom and the CFN. "Could not have...
?Ron, BRAVO! You have articulated precisely one of the recommendations I plan to eventually write up in a list of suggestions to Tom and the CFN. "Could not...
Thanks for this Stephen. You wrote: Ok on 1) I think you may be mistaken as I don't think random means? indeterministic in the term random mutation. But at the...
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