[ExI] Humans losing freewill

[Stathis Papaioannou]

There's fuzzy and imprecise, and there's incoherent. "Free will" is
incoherent.

On 22 November 2016 at 02:03, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> "Instinct", "intuition" and "gut feeling" can be defined quite easily.
> Stathis
>
> Great - I challenge you to do it.  A problem with your definition of gut
> feeling is that it cannot be objectively measured.  Only the person who is
> acting, he says, on a gut feeling, can call it that, and self-report on
> feelings is not scientific data.
> No objective measurement, no proper definition.  For use in science, that
> is.
>
> People use these words over and over and when challenged cannot properly
> define them.  I have asked thousands of students to define them and all
> they can do is to offer synonyms, which of course is circular.  They just
> want to play "oh you know what I mean".  So I challenge them with 'love'.
> Does everyone mean exactly the same thing when they use that term?  No,
> they say.  Then what does it mean when you say it?  Perhaps something
> different from what your partner thinks you mean?  Yes, perhaps.  Very very
> fuzzy.  (When a female hears "I love you" she may think "exclusive
> relationship",which is sometimes not what the guy meant when he said it.)
>




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Stathis Papaioannou
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