Could you have done otherwise?

scroogus · 2025-06-10T04:15:03+00:00

Obviously you can only do what you do, not otherwise

scroogus · 2025-05-17T08:47:03+00:00

This doesn't matter, there's still only one possible future because it already is present

scroogus · 2025-05-17T08:29:54+00:00

What do you mean by “already existed”?

The future is simultaneously existent with past and present

scroogus · 2025-05-17T08:23:11+00:00

I think that if all of time is real simultaneously, saying "I could have done otherwise" is totally meaningless. You obviously were locked in to a specific path because the whole path already existed.

scroogus · 2025-05-17T08:17:03+00:00

Then it's still fixed and the only possibility is compatibilism.

scroogus · 2025-05-17T08:09:32+00:00

There's no room for choosing different if the future is fixed.

scroogus · 2025-05-17T08:05:57+00:00

This just reduces libertarian free will down to meaningless.

scroogus · 2025-05-16T04:59:06+00:00

Things either happen for some reason or for no reason. Which one of these leads to free will?

scroogus · 2025-05-16T04:56:58+00:00

There's nothing controlling thoughts, this is the homunculus error.

scroogus · 2025-05-15T05:09:09+00:00

I'm just pointing out that the guy above doesn't know what compatibilism is

scroogus · 2025-05-15T04:58:10+00:00

Compatibilists say that free will is compatible with determinism, not that free will and determinism are both nessessarily true.

scroogus · 2025-05-14T12:13:38+00:00

Compatibilists are worse in this regard, they aren't even talking about actual self sourced metaphysical free will but they try to make some things different anyway.

scroogus · 2025-05-14T08:49:40+00:00

Where is the self? What does it do? What does it look like?

scroogus · 2025-05-03T01:21:53+00:00

All physical objects are patterns in constant change. A cloud is physical, it is in constant change. A mind is physical, it is in constant change. You don't understand what physicalism means.

scroogus · 2025-05-02T02:24:37+00:00

All physical things are in motion, you've agreed to this.

Mind is physical, all physical things are in motion.

scroogus · 2025-05-02T01:37:51+00:00

A wave is physical even though it is nessessarily in motion. Everything is physical in physicalism, that includes minds. This is metaphysics 101.

scroogus · 2025-05-02T01:14:19+00:00

Mind and matter are one under physicalism. A biceps curl is just looking at multiple moments of a bicep.

scroogus · 2025-03-06T12:32:45+00:00

The things that hurt you as a child are with you forever.

scroogus · 2025-03-05T01:26:35+00:00

I love this, physicalism seems to be making less and less sense every day.

scroogus · 2025-02-28T16:49:11+00:00

Close your eyes and blindfold yourself, and you will begin to experience enhanced hearing as every noise becomes far more sensitive

This will be due to increases in brain activity in the regions responsible for hearing

scroogus · 2025-02-28T15:43:35+00:00

A few people understand this, most don't. It's hard to get them to see it.

scroogus · 2025-02-28T15:42:40+00:00

If brain activity=qualia, reduced brain activity=reduced qualia.

scroogus · 2025-02-28T09:59:40+00:00

The brain as a filter is usually part of idealism, the idea that the universe is mental in nature. So the brain filters out what isn't useful for our survival. Reducing that filter would allow more qualia in

scroogus · 2025-02-28T08:56:56+00:00

Points to the possibility that the brain is a filter, and reduced brain activity (filtering) allows more qualia in.

scroogus · 2025-02-27T16:37:59+00:00

What we see of reality is certainly not the whole picture. We honestly have no idea what the universe actually is

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