When murderers were hanged quickly (2014)

Re:When murderers were hanged quickly (2014) by fpoling on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @02:39PM (#20167856)

One does not need to refer to the brain research. According to physics everything is predetermined and follows from the initial conditions. So free will is an illusion. Also according to physics time flow is another illusion as time-space is just a wave function on 4d surface.

Yet these illusions are strong and people have been writing about them for at least for 2500 years. Epicurus effectively suggested to believe in gods since the alternative, physical determinism, is just hopeless and useless.

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Re:When murderers were hanged quickly (2014) by sysbin on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @02:53PM (#20168021)

I wouldn't view things as hopeless & useless until people completely abandon reason and rational for progressing the system of society. Determinism doesn't make me feel hopeless or useless because I can see faults in a system that's antiquated by an incorrect belief.

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