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Re:The Strong Free Will Theorem (2009) [pdf] by Doxin on Thursday November 08, 2018 @04:24AM (#18405246)
Isn't that ignoring the fact that we can build tools to translate unsensable things into sensable ones? E.g. infrared cameras allow us to sense infrared which we normally aren't able to. Theoretically we should be able to build tools to sense anything which has an effect on the world. If it has no effect on the world then does it even exist?
Re:The Strong Free Will Theorem (2009) [pdf] by chmod775 on Thursday November 08, 2018 @11:56AM (#18407679)
There's still things that are impossible to accurately measure from within our reality.

We, for instance, can't know or measure the precise state of things as they would've been had something different occured than what actually occured at an earlier time.

This is especially obvious in the realm of quantum mechanics, where you can't know what you would have measured if you had measured earlier or later than you did (I hope my interpretation as a layperson was correct here). That information just doesn't exist in our reality, but it may exist in some higher order place where all those realities can be observed.

Re:The Strong Free Will Theorem (2009) [pdf] by jatsign on Thursday November 08, 2018 @03:23PM (#18409631)
Viewing infrared extends one of our existing senses. Kant's point was that could be attributes of the thing that do not, in anyway, relate to our senses.

These attributes can't have any effect on the phenomenal world, or they'd be detectable, and by definition, they're not detectable by us. Unless, of course, our free will is part of the noumenal world, and our actions in the phenomenal world are simply one way of viewing our will.