As we know, philosophically, if a tree falls in the woods and it falls on the only person who was there to hear it, the tree wouldn’t have made a noise when it killed them – presumably because it would be trying to sneak up on the blighter. Or something. Welcome to the wonderful world [...]
Archive for the ‘Free Will’ Category
The Perception Question
Posted in Articles, Free Will on January 10, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Hey don’t blame me, it’s not like I chose to write it in two parts
Posted in Articles, Free Will on November 22, 2006 | 1 Comment »
On Monday I started an article about Free Will called I feel like I just had to write this article. You may want to check that out before continuing here. The problem of a lack of Free Will is one that happens in society. If we don’t believe in Free Will then how can we [...]
I feel like I just had to write this article
Posted in Articles, Free Will on November 20, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Nick pointed out in a comment to Wednesday’s post Philtrum Filtering that Free Will could be an illusion simply because we make our judgments on the back of all of the conditioning that we have been receiving since we were brought up. When I was writing about free will (in Free Willy) I was kind [...]
Free Willy
Posted in Articles, Free Will on November 8, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Does Free Will exist? Free Will doesn’t exist and does exist at the same time because it is a definition of a thing we don’t really have words for yet. Let me go all tangential for a moment and come back. How do you know when I see something green and you see the same [...]
