Best class of my life
I just heard the most brilliant, powerful demonstration of free will I’ve ever seen. Utterly new, and beautiful, and explains more than all the others combined. And it’s amenable (though not dependent on) material/scientific demonstration. It doesn’t flout existence or consciousness, but is a natural consequence given perceptual information (i.e. non-evaluative observations; a kind of sense-perception, in fact, though different from the percepts derived from the five sense). I just need a fleet of diverse and highly able scientists, and sufficient time and money. I think we can show the mechanistic/process nature of free will physically, experimentally, evolutionarily, psychologically. That is, we can show it materially, though philosophy (via the observation of free will) does not require it. It’s a tractable phenomenon for scientific investigation and demonstration, though it’s not the kind of concept open to "proof" - because any process of inquiry (and proof) presupposes it. All from a tweak of perspective in philosophy, grounded in an existence-oriented metaphysics. (See below). A solar system from a grain of sand. It’s fantastic. And now I must study it, really learn it.
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Comment by FIDO — September 25, 2006 @ 8:54 pm