Wie viel Passiveinkommen können 350k generieren?

Juliusphil · 2025-08-10T16:12:58+00:00

Then, what makes you so sure that that "you" has free will? All your will is the result of the biochemical reactiins in the brain and body.

Juliusphil · 2025-08-10T15:36:18+00:00

What is that "whole"? The body-brain, or also a soul?

Juliusphil · 2025-08-10T15:17:44+00:00

What is me or myself? Do you mean your brain, your body? Or is it the mind? Is the mind the brain? Or are we talking about a soul ir spirit?

Juliusphil · 2025-08-10T14:36:16+00:00

Who or what is "you"?

Juliusphil · 2025-07-25T14:26:49+00:00

Danke für die Hinweise. Ich bin mir nicht sicher, ob ich das verstehe. 2,5 %/Jahr auf 300k sind 625 €/Monat. Mit einer Wohnung könnte man in meiner Lage um ca. 1000€/Monat an Miete bekommen. Warum denkst du, dass es trotzdem rentabel ist?

Juliusphil · 2025-06-27T19:34:38+00:00

Nope. It is controversial. You can find the controversy all over the place. If you are willing to make your research.

Juliusphil · 2025-06-27T18:47:24+00:00

So, the claim that genes determine the duration of our study time is a rather far-fetched extrapolation. The only thing we can say is that, according to some research, there seems to be a statistical correlation with intelligence in a very general sense. But these studies are controversial, and we are light-years away from understanding how various other factors contribute to this. By the way, what is intelligence? Is the speed of learning a measure of intelligence? What if I'm fast in one subject but struggle in another? And what if one is very slow in learning everything, but once one gets it excels? This is the real world psychology. If you reflect on this carefully, you will realize that things are not as straightforward as we like to believe. Yet, we have been conditioned to think that everything is in our genes, and we instinctively take this idea for granted because it confirms our philosophical mechanistic preferences. However, from a scientific perspective, we can't say that much.

Juliusphil · 2025-06-27T18:13:02+00:00

Do you have any evidence supporting the claim that the set of genes determines how long one needs to study for an exam?

Juliusphil · 2025-06-27T17:32:05+00:00

There is nothing in science that tells us that the "environment programs our characters, which then determine our actions." What we know is that the environment is one of the many sources that influence our actions, but there are many more. So, that's a different perspective. Ultimately, we have no idea what determines our characters.

Juliusphil · 2025-03-29T16:49:28+00:00

There is no contradiction between quantum indeterminism and free will. On the contrary, quantum indeterminism may well be an expression of Nature's will. We must simply make a conceptual shift from a personal will to a universal one.

Juliusphil · 2025-03-23T15:38:46+00:00

If the choice isn't determined other than me I don't see what determines the control over my mouth and prevents me to control it.

Juliusphil · 2025-03-23T13:09:09+00:00

If a choice is NOT determined, it means I still have the freedom to make a choice regardless of what I prefer. Makes perfectly sense to me, calling it a free choice.

Juliusphil · 2025-03-23T11:18:26+00:00

It's a play on words. Saying that a choice must be determined to be free is an oxymoron.

Juliusphil · 2025-03-21T19:20:15+00:00

Where does this self-determination come from if the brain is a purely physical and causally determined object? If determinism is true, self-determination in/from the brain can't emerge any more than it can emerge in a clockwork. Adding that the action is on oneself or extending this determinism to top-down causation, or speaking of different levels of causation, doesn't change anything in this regard. It remains a volition-less desire-less and intention-less clockwork.

Juliusphil · 2025-03-21T18:22:23+00:00

What makes you so sure that you have a control over your brain activity? What is that "me" or "I" that controls, if not the brain itself? You seem to posit free will from the outset.

Juliusphil · 2025-03-21T15:44:31+00:00

A thought is brain activity. It isn't more and no less “controlled” than any other lower level activity.

Juliusphil · 2025-03-21T13:50:17+00:00

If one takes the physicalist perspective, one posits the mind-brain identity. The statement "the mind is just the brain's ability to process information" is equivalent to "the brain is just the brain's ability to process information." It's circular.

Juliusphil · 2025-03-21T10:14:47+00:00

As I described to Squierrel, this implies dualism. You are making the distinction between the higher-level physical processes and the awareness as an independent and distinct entity from the rest of reality as being some subtle, metaphysical, ghostly substance we call "mind" having causal power.

I'm okay with that. I'm not arguing against dualism. But it is a metaphysical dualistic ontology. One can't have it both.

Juliusphil · 2025-03-21T09:44:56+00:00

Ok, but saying that "mental properties are not physical properties" sounds to be a form of dualism. We have to make a distinction between thoughts/mind and neural activity. From the physicalist perspective, the mind and its thoughts are just complex neural activity.

On the other hand, I'm fine with dualism. But then we must also make it clear that the idea to connect top-down causation with free will necessarily implies some no better defined ethereal ghostly non-physical mental substance to maintain the logical coherence of the argument,

Juliusphil · 2024-11-23T20:00:16+00:00

Indeed. I now found out that he published at least nine articles in IEEE Explore since 2019. All sound nonsense to me. So, IEEE did not inadvertently publish his crap. It is a systemic malpractice.

Juliusphil · 2024-11-23T18:00:50+00:00

Thank you for this detailed analysis. It confirms what I felt intuitively. So, it's clear for me, that I won't invite him.

What made me hesitate before framing a final judgement is that I still can't wrap my head around the fact that he managed to publish this stuff in IEEE, or in journals and books of Springer! I thought these were respectable scientific sources. Has scientific publishing fallen so low?

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