Posted: Jan 11, 2017 4:00 am
romansh wrote:the fact that our brain chemistry (and physics) appears be determined by probabilistic phenomena in no way allows me to have a sense of free will.
But as I demonstrated, the probability that all human behaviour is "chemistry and physics doing its thing" is infinitely small, and the probability of this human behaviour being a matter of chance is also infinitely small. And as this is a requirement for the human behaviour that we call "empirical science", to claim that it is in conflict with any empirical science entails a contradiction.ughaibu wrote:Notice that following the instructors of who, where, when and what, as indicated by the dice, is equivalent to recording the result of the sequence of dice rolls. In short, it is a requirement, for the conduct of empirical science, that the behaviour of people is not entailed by any empirical science, so it is barking nonsense to hold that our behaviour is "chemistry or physics doing its thing".