... Unlikely, apart from incidental effects of cosmic rays and the like. To see whether quantum effects will play a role, one can compare the typical "action"...
Hi to everyone, Branden's work it has been a very important help for me, I am 32 now,and I read my first Branden's book when I was 16. I was diagnosed with...
"Incidental effects" are always in play, just as there is radioactive matter in our bodies, and their behavior is seemingly random foundationally: chaos theory...
Journal entry for Monday, November 1, 2004: What absolute enormous cost ignorance, stupidity and domestic abuse has created in 3 lives. What cost. Mario and...
cool guy wrote> Nobody challenged rde calling himself a "prime mover"? Oh, I think he is free to label himself however he pleases. No challenge. The very...
... Not necessarily. Classical mechanics wouldn't be possible if quantum fluctuations would have macroscopic effects. But in fact almost every macroscopic...
So it was free will that had Nathaniel Branden sleeping with at least 2 women at one time when he and Ayn Rand thought that they were the most rational people...
... least 2 ... most rational ... So if you do that and admit it, in detail, you are disqualified from any further qualification to make meaning? Throwing...
This discussion died out too suddenly for my tastes, and I hope we can get back to it. Jack and other skeptics of Evolutionary Psychology make the charge that...
... Be carefull. Let things settle down. Find someone to talk to. If you are angry you're still bound tightly to what you want to let go of. --Brant...
I am not saying that these "macroscopic" systems are not "well-described" by classical mechanics: I am saying they are incomplete from a determinist...
How can one falsify hypotheses about the original evolutionary environment, for example? Dupre provides a devastating critique of these assumptions in an essay...
If you have a computer that analyzes data in various ways, the various results of such analyses would depend on the data on the computer (on one of the disks)...
It works fine for me, though nobody is in the chat room presently. Peace, "I can't think of any greater harm to humanity than the kind that's done by good...
MLerner, I can't follow the thread of this post to know to which post this is a follow-up to, but I would say that you support the non-free will position....
In a message dated 11/2/2004 10:10:50 AM Eastern Standard Time, philosopherknight@... writes: MLerner, I can't follow the thread of this post to know to...
HI Can you give an example on being rational & being independent. Thanks Khalid __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of...
Hi I want to know how to live conscousley how to do that after reading the book (six pillares of Self -Esteem) i still find it a bit confusing. Thanks Khalid ...
... "*Of course* the system is intelligent" - ??? What do you mean by "intelligent," if not capable of understanding? And since you've proclaimed yourself an...
... You've denied this, Mike, although apparently without realizing you'd done so (likewise that "intelligent system" has any meaning.) Maybe start with this...
I asked Mike: " ... Or are you saying -- as a consistent epiphenominalist would say -- that whatever you experience is only the tossed-off by-product (to use...
Khalid Adam wrote: "I want to know how to live consciously how to do that after reading the book (six pillares of Self -Esteem) i still find it a bit ...
Evidently, it is all there is and it is insufficient. Jack Angstreich ... Isn't the archaeological record a good start? Mike Visit Nathaniel Branden's web site...
"Tossed-off by-product" sounds so weighted to me, but yes, mental processes are by-products of processes in the brain. I do not believe the mind exists...
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