[ExI] free-will, determinism, crime and punishment.

Vladimir Nesov robotact at mail.ru
Sun Aug 26 14:33:59 UTC 2007


Sunday, August 26, 2007, John K Clark wrote:

JKC> "Vladimir Nesov" <robotact at mail.ru>

>> You can also not point to a human-level
>> intelligence that lacks blood.

JKC> True, but as you can't point to a non human intelligence that has or has not
JKC> blood your point is moot. Besides, blood is unimportant, emotion is not.

>> Immediacy of experience isn't necessary for evidence.

JKC> Well, it sure as hell helps!

How do you decide that blood is unimportant? `Absence of immediately
experienceable evidence' argument invoked so far doesn't help with
this problem; so why should it help with decision about importance of
emotions?


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 Vladimir Nesov                            mailto:robotact at mail.ru




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