I quite understand that your "choice" is neither caused or random but a third value that is neither.
OK, good, I thought so. You seemed pretty smart.
I can say lots of things about "random" and "causally determined" that distinguish these properties.
Why don't you go ahead and do that, for a paragraph or so, and I'll see if I can complete the pattern for you and give you the kind of description you're looking for. To me it just seems obvious what a choice is, in the same way that I know what "truth" is and what "good" is, but if you can manage to describe the meaning of "random" analytically then I can probably copy it for the word "chosen." If I can't, that will surprise me.
But surely you can recognize that you aren't actually that different from all the other objects you discover in the world and likely work the same way they do.
you're hardly the first person who has wanted this kind of free will and went about inventing a third kind of thing to prove that it existed.
Have I waxed poetic about souls and destiny and homunculi? I don't remember "inventing" a third kind of thing. I'm just sort of pointing at my experience of choice and labeling it "choice." If you insist that what I think is choice is really something else, you're welcome to prove it to me with direct evidence, but I'm not really interested in Bayesian inferences here. I am unconvinced that brains and rocks are in the same reference class. I do not accept the physicalist-reductionist hypothesis as literally true, despite its excellent track record at producing useful models for predicting the future. I understand that the vast majority of people on this site -do- accept that hypothesis. I do not have the stamina or inclination to hold the field on that issue against an entire community of intelligent debaters.
Why don't you go ahead and do that, for a paragraph or so, and I'll see if I can complete the pattern for you and give you the kind of description you're looking for. To me it just seems obvious what a choice is, in the same way that I know what "truth" is and what "good" is, but if you can manage to describe the meaning of "random" analytically then I can probably copy it for the word "chosen." If I can't, that will surprise me.
It's obvious to you what "truth" is and what "goodness" is? Really...
A monthly thread for posting rationality-related quotes you've seen recently (or had stored in your quotesfile for ages).
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