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Re: What do you believe? (Redux)

« Reply #135 on: February 23, 2018, 05:36:59 pm »
We addressed that in the Thorsten thread, see e.g. the last two pages of that thread http://www.second-apocalypse.com/index.php?topic=30.45
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Re: What do you believe? (Redux)

« Reply #136 on: February 23, 2018, 06:25:14 pm »
We're having a communication breakdown, unfortunately, Tleilaxu. When you use the phrase, "Free will is trivially false.", I read that to say "There is a trivial sense in which free will is false, but in a deeper sense, it is true." Which is not your view, unless I'm mistaken.

Do you see my point? Sorry to be annoying, but I'm just trying to understand.
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Re: What do you believe? (Redux)

« Reply #137 on: February 23, 2018, 06:28:11 pm »
Quote from: TLEILAXU on February 23, 2018, 05:21:28 pm
It's exactly the other way around, i.e. stars and life increase entropy, but that's probably what you meant to say.

Yeah, I had my theoretical conception reversed in my head, because I wasn't thinking of entropy as temperature, rather I was conceptualizing ordered states, i.e. fusion making hydrogen into helium and the like, in a molecular sense, not regarding the obvious issue of the whole system...
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Re: What do you believe? (Redux)

« Reply #138 on: February 23, 2018, 06:42:08 pm »
Quote from: BeardFisher-King on February 23, 2018, 06:25:14 pm
We're having a communication breakdown, unfortunately, Tleilaxu. When you use the phrase, "Free will is trivially false.", I read that to say "There is a trivial sense in which free will is false, but in a deeper sense, it is true." Which is not your view, unless I'm mistaken.

Do you see my point? Sorry to be annoying, but I'm just trying to understand.
What I meant to say is that trivially, there is no such thing as free will.

Quote from: H on February 23, 2018, 06:28:11 pm
Quote from: TLEILAXU on February 23, 2018, 05:21:28 pm
It's exactly the other way around, i.e. stars and life increase entropy, but that's probably what you meant to say.

Yeah, I had my theoretical conception reversed in my head, because I wasn't thinking of entropy as temperature, rather I was conceptualizing ordered states, i.e. fusion making hydrogen into helium and the like, in a molecular sense, not regarding the obvious issue of the whole system...
I think another nice way to look at it could be that the potential energy of the system is continually decreasing.
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Re: What do you believe? (Redux)

« Reply #139 on: February 23, 2018, 06:55:34 pm »
Quote from: TLEILAXU on February 23, 2018, 06:42:08 pm
Quote from: BeardFisher-King on February 23, 2018, 06:25:14 pm
We're having a communication breakdown, unfortunately, Tleilaxu. When you use the phrase, "Free will is trivially false.", I read that to say "There is a trivial sense in which free will is false, but in a deeper sense, it is true." Which is not your view, unless I'm mistaken.

Do you see my point? Sorry to be annoying, but I'm just trying to understand.
What I meant to say is that trivially, there is no such thing as free will.
In short, the modifier "trivially" has no effect on the sentence, and your position is that there is no such thing as free will. Got it now, thanks.
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Re: What do you believe? (Redux)

« Reply #140 on: February 23, 2018, 08:48:27 pm »
:Evil laughter: Dibs on Tleilaxu's soul in the Outside. Hahahahahahaha. Shit, ignorance is holy!
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