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Given the terms of the Compatibilist definition of determinism, it is the antecedents that determine the course of all events within the system as it evolves from past to present and future states without deviation. That is how determinism is defined. Just as you supported constant...

Determinism is not force. Nobody is forced to act against their will. Just that will, thought, action, mental capacity, skill, etc - if the world is deterministic as compatibilists define it to be - are shaped and formed by processes that precede the formation of will and are not subject...

If will is free, an act of will should be able to change whatever is changeable. Sadly, nothing within a deterministic system is able to altered through an act of will. As will, mind, thought and action (like everything else) is set by how the system must necessarily evolve (being...

Determinism, as defined by Compatibilists, permits no alternate actions or choice. Which means that the brain, inseparable from the system as it evolves without deviation, makes decisions, not choices. A choice involves the possibility of taking a different option at any given moment, while a...

The only difference between 'hard determinism' and 'soft determinism' is that one side claims that free will is not compatible with determinism, and the other claims it is compatible. Otherwise, the given conditions of determinism, how it works, antecedents, past, present and future states of...

Nothing much to disagree with....but, how would quantum indeterminism relate to free will? How would free will be defined in relation to a probabilistic or indeterministic word? How would it work? A version of Libertarian free will? A modified Compatibilist definition of free will?

Compatibilism is the argument that free will is compatible with determinism as Compatibilists define it to be . If the world is not deterministic, Compatibilism has no bearing on how the world works, which makes it practically irrelevant. The question then becomes, what is the nature of free...

Clumsy does it.

It would seem that if determinism is true, the physical principles of the world must be sufficiently robust to reliably inform our past, present and future states of knowledge.

Who knows. ''Initial'' as in inflation happened. The nature of whatever brought - whatever ''it'' is - it about or triggered inflation.

Maybe the plasma, lepton soup, or whatever, itself has initial conditions, inherent properties that determine the laws of physics?

A good zoo allows the animals to behave in their natural manner, ideal for study and amusement. Tourists love it.

It's an interesting story, and good that you posted it.

The business class saw the potential in industrialization. And workers were exploited to whatever extent possible at that time, which became so bad that the consequenece was organization of labour for leverage, unions were formed. The point being is that the conditions of time and place...

An interaction of genes and environment, yet if you took a baby from Roman times and raised it in our culture, the child would not have a Roman philosophy or way of looking at the world. The same applies to different cultures in our time, take a child from a devout christian family and raise...

Of course it is. It's always fine in Santa Monica.

Faith or trust.

Sure, and when conditions for workers became incredibly bad, workers formed unions as a means to achieve better pay and conditions. Slaves had no such option. Earlier times, a series of plagues decimated the population which led to higher wages for workers due to a severe labor shortage...

I suppose there is always a rationale for failure. Nobodies fault....next event please.