tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post7620065455719584584..comments2024-03-16T05:00:38.826-04:00Comments on Egnorance: If there is no free will, there is no innocence.mregnorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11431770851694587832noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-46517121447790263572012-10-11T21:37:07.795-04:002012-10-11T21:37:07.795-04:00"So what are the consequences of realizing th..."<i>So what are the consequences of realizing that physical determinism negates our ability to choose freely?</i>"<br /><br />I wonder, does he not see, or does he just not care, about the absurd self-contradiction?<br /><br />"<i>... If free will goes, so do those beliefs. But of course religion won't relinquish those ideas, for such important dogma is immune to scientific advances.</i>"<br /><br />I wonder, does he not see, or does he just not care, about the absurd self-contradiction?<br /><br />"<i>Although science strongly suggests that free will of the sort I defined doesn't exist, this view is unpopular because it contradicts our powerful feeling that we make real choices.</i>"<br /><br />I wonder, does he not see, or does he just not care, about the absurd self-contradiction?Ilíonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-90496222790671173502012-10-11T21:29:23.507-04:002012-10-11T21:29:23.507-04:00"Pour your coffee on Jerry's laptop, and ..."<i>Pour your coffee on Jerry's laptop, and see if he sticks to his claim that 'moral responsibility' should be discarded.</i>"<br /><br />Here is an even easier test -- call him a liar and a scoundrel.Ilíonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-75574408101272194802012-10-11T21:26:24.939-04:002012-10-11T21:26:24.939-04:00"Why should sane people have the "burden..."<i>Why should sane people have the "burden of proof"? Shouldn't the guy who thinks that he-couldn't-have-gotten-out-of-bed-if-he-didn't-get-out-of-bed have the burden of proof?</i>"<br /><br />The claim that we do not have "free will" -- or, the more properly phrase it, the claim that we are not free wills -- is a super-extraordinary claim/assertion. Yet, we will never see and of the pea-brain 'atheists' who haunt your blog say of *that* assertion, "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence".Ilíonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-6838008095477060502012-10-11T11:33:27.423-04:002012-10-11T11:33:27.423-04:00I can accept that Jerry Coyne has no free will. Th...I can accept that Jerry Coyne has no free will. That's why he's so easy to ignore. Might as well listen to a parrot.George Boggsnoreply@blogger.com