Fact that brainless people report all kinds of stuff as paranormal (how our world is rigged and controlled by lizards), won’t make all paranormal stuff as fake!
While other group disregard everything (Dumb Defense force of simplicity, IQ <31). This does not mean paranormal things do not exist, if there is no proof!
Unexplained paranormal stuff does happen and still nobody can explain them, they stay as paranormal!
Ball of lighting happens when alien probing occurs near by! Very rare random event!
If you boil the argument down, it goes something like mathematics gives a close approximation of the world around us (invented), versus mathematics describes the world around us (discovered).
Paranormal i dont know. In general i would say i do not believe in it but i cant rule it out completely. Though i do believe that if it exists it could be explained within the realm of physics (possible a part of the realm we have not discovered yet).
I have had one paranormal experience in my life,now ages ago.
When i was a kid (~ age 12) me and my sister (who is 1,5 years younger) where listening to a radio show about paranormal things. The radio show wanted to do an experiment where they would try to transmit thoughts to the audience. It counted down and then there was 1-2 minutes of silence during which the thoughts where suposedly transmitted.
After those 2 minutes me and my sister looked at eachoter and told eachoter what we thought they where trying to transmit. I dont remember everything anymore but it was a firetruck amongst others. My sister and i had the same things (like 5 or 6) and then the show told us which thoughts they tried to transmit and we had 5 out of 7 or something.
Since we didnt really believe in it we tried to explain it rationally. For example:research could have shown that if people where asked to think about a random subject firetrucks would be high on the list. And the show then simply did pick the things that where on top of the list. But overall it was difficult to find a good explanation for it.
I dont know,it is not something that truly interests me all that much and other then that single experience i have not had any others.
I would suggest you go look into this more. Experimentation shows that we can see what you choose for an action before you’re aware you chose it. This goes directly against what you’ve just stated. You can not will something to happen because you’ve already decided the action before you’re aware of it. Thus, you are willing something that’s already been determined in your brain.
I would suggest you check out some podcasts of some neuroscientists like Sam Harris who discusses this in great detail with examples of the studies.
Also based on your responses and others responses they aren’t aware of how or what determinism is. Everything is made of matter that we are aware of. Matter is made up of other particles. Those particles move in a direction and at a speed. If you were to go back 5 minutes and push play everything would happen exactly the same way because all those particles would still be moving in the same direction and at the same speed and bumping into the same exact particles as before. In order for you to believe that Free Will exists you have to believe that something outside of that matter interacts with the matter that’s moving around and changes or can change it’s direction or speed. It must be outside of matter because if it existed inside of matter it would already be in the calculation before you moved back time. All your synapsei in your brain is affected by all this matter so it move in the exact same positions that it was before. So again, in order for you to believe Free Will exists you would have to explain what is interacting with that matter that doesn’t contain matter to make it move a different direction. I don’t know how you get around this. Is this enough to tell us 100% that free will doesn’t exist? No. But until we find something that exists outside of that matter and can pop into existence move the matter and pop out of existence and not be affected by other particles itself, Free Will doesn’t appear to exist because you can’t change the direction of the molecules and the matter without using other molecules and matter.
You don’t understand what you write and most likely copy what someone else told on some video.
ScrotieMcB is right (only thing ever), you can choose A B or C and it’s free will.
Only way there is no “free will” is possibility our brain is manipulated(West World style) and everything that feels like ours is pre fixed in place!
If you don’t believe in such nonsense and absurd thing, then Free Will exist!
This is not possible!
A. Machine can read signals that control our brain!
B. Machine can only see connections that our brain made and just confirms decisions we made!
So B is right. Because we got no machine that can read matrix we live in!
I think you’re missing a few details specifically regarding randomness. There appear to be truly random events in the Universe, for example, radioactive decay. This doesn’t mean therefore free will, though, I agree. But, for instance, if we could somehow rewind to the Big Bang, there’d be no way to predict exactly what would come of it.
If you were to go back 5 minutes and push play everything would happen exactly the same way because all those particles would still be moving in the same direction and at the same speed and bumping into the same exact particles as before.
Not neccesarily. Quantum effects give room for a different outcome. At least that is how i see it. You make good points in the rest of your post btw,and i do agree with some of them.
As I said earlier you’re arguing from ignorance. We don’t know if the reason that we can’t predict the behavior of subatomic particles is because they are pseudo random in their execution or if we cannot measure accurately.
It also doesnt rule it out. Which is why i said “could”.
There have been many attempts to make free will consistent with determinism. As the concept of free will obviously is very important for society (to prevent fatalistic behaviour). And all of those attempts have been clumpsy imo. One popular explanation is that we have free will but that it is already determined what our free will would chose. This to me does feel a bit farsought but i would not reject this concept with 100% certainty.
Maybe free will is an illusion. Maybe our consciousness is an illusion as well.
Daniel Dennet has written about this which is quiet interesting (for those who want to read more about this).
My own vision on consciousness is rather unique and it would take a bit to long to fully explain it here.
And to come back on quantum effects. There might be hidden variables we dont know about that could erase the randomness and restore determinism. This is a quiet popular theory amongst those who believe in determinism. The “hidden variables” theory is not particulary popular amongst physicists but since we do not know everything in theory it could be true.
Another possible explanation is that quantum effects are not in contradiction with determinism which stricly speaking is true. We can describe things with the wave function and the wave function is deterministic. Even though we do get a random outcome once we do a measurement and the wave function collapses (or rather a new wave function apears).
Maybe. I’m certainly not claiming that worrying about the ontological status of mathematics is productive or even common. I’d say it mostly occupies the very young or the very drunk.
We learn to ignore the question eventually, but it’s not a terrible question. Mathematics really is quite strange and unintuitive.
You can sit in your room, staring at the walls, and figure out that 1/1^2 + 1/2^2 + 1/3^2 + 1/4^2 + … = pi^2/6. That’s strange. Nothing in your day to day experience of the universe hints that this could be true. You couldn’t really check whether or not it’s true in the actual universe.
You can prove results in set theory about the properties of a certain class of objects, while also proving that whether or not any objects of this class even exist is unprovable.
You can start with the basic ideas of calculus and group theory, and prove the Banach Tarski paradox - a ball of radius 1 in 3 dimensional space can be broken up into finitely many pieces, and these pieces can be rearranged to form two balls of radius 1.
At some point, after staring into the void and trying to open hellraiser style puzzle boxes that only exist in your mind, you have to wonder - what the hell am I doing? What am I even saying? Does any of it mean anything?
At some point, after you’ve stared into the void for long enough, after you’ve spent night after night trying to pry open some strange Hellraiser style box that only exists in your mind, you have to wonder - what the hell is it that I’m doing?
I might be one of the others you’re referring to. I do know what determinism is, I just don’t think it’s necessarily descriptive of reality.
The clockwork model of matter being composed of particles which have certain mass and velocity and which collide using deterministic rules is only a model. It’s not an accurate description of reality. In small scales, this is not our best description of the world we observe. Our models in those scales involve some amount of indeterminism and some amount of built in fuzziness about what is a particle, where is it, and what is its velocity.
I’m fairly agnostic about free will, but I don’t think that hard determinism reflects our best understanding of the universe.
Free will is an open debate, but the majority of heavy hitters in theoretical physics favour the hypothesis that free will is an illusion, that the universe is deterministic.