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Adding one more ingredient to the determinism pot, I was struck by these slim but not-insignificant passages in Sam Harris’ blog https://www.samharris.org/blog/the-marionettes-lament:   And while you scoff at […]

Selection of recent comments from last month’s open discussion – part 2 #APRIL125
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One perennial example of when I have occasion to reflect on the furphy of free will, is at Easter. I get plied […]

Selection of recent comments from last month’s open discussion, copied here to aid the flow. You can still respond to any comments from last month’s discussion that we haven’t copied across, of course, but in all […]

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Strato, at #125:   furphy   Ha, God bless Aussie slang! 😀   The dratted thing about understanding our own “authorship” is that, to use an extended metaphor, we’re eternal performers. We see the stage and act on […]

One perennial example of when I have occasion to reflect on the furphy of free will, is at Easter. I get plied with chocolate, in the shape of eggs wrapped in pretty aluminium foil, and the Australian endangered […]