Today, we live in a world in which the concepts of incompleteness and uncertainty are seen as integral and inherent to information transfer. Does this mean that certainties will always conflict between any two or more agents or, even, within a single awareness? Are we sure that doubt is the only reasonable position for each [...]
What if no one felt bad for copying someone else’s thought or idea? What if everyone felt free to use any information they found for any reason? Imagine a world in which you could copy one paragraph from one article, add another paragraph from a different article, throw in a few of your own thoughts, [...]
The Being’s prediction must be confined to my past actions, so if I have a habit of taking chances, then it is more likely that I will choose Box B. If I am conservative and normally play it safe, then it is more likely that I will choose boxes A and B. Is it more [...]
Western societies of course tend to prioritize reason over emotion. Yet, if we interpret emotion as a mental process in the same way that we interpret conscious reasoning as a mental process, then can it not be argued that rationality is really a measure of ignorance and that irrationality, especially when driven by emotion, is [...]
Personal aesthetic is often expressed in the form of, “I know what I like.” Alternatively, you might hear something like, “I know good art when I see it.” In other words, art, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Moreover, this sentiment tells us, we can be sure that what each of us [...]
Suppose there is a multiverse where all possible events occur. This seems to imply that there is a limit to the number of possible events. Yet, if there is such a limit, then our degrees of freedom would seem to be likewise limited, which precludes any notion of free will as unlimited.
It seems to me that the essential difference between living and nonliving matter is one of elemental configuration. Given a finite number of chemical elements, their configuration might or might not lead to autonomous or self-directed action. Here, action within chemical compounds is defined as autonomous if compound elements work synergistically to achieve a purpose [...]
It seems to me that, for free will to exist, a single set of initial conditions would have to allow an infinite number of resulting event scenarios if the initial conditions were replayed. A finite number of resulting events would mean that your life is simply part of one possibility. It does not seem to [...]
In “What is Wrong with Our Thoughts”, author David Stove makes the following points: From an Enlightenment or Positivist point of view, which is Hume’s point of view, and mine, there is simply no avoiding the conclusion that the human race is mad. There are scarcely any human beings who do not have some lunatic [...]
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