Katja Grace
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Imagine something happens. For instance you make a decision. There are three possibilities for this occurence: 1. It could be related purely to other factors (determinism) 2. It could be not related to other factors (randomness) 3. It could be a combination of these (a mixture of determinism and randomness) None of these are free will (as commonly understood). So where does the concept of free will fit in? How could an occurence escape from being in one of these categories? Clearly it can't. So there is no possibility of a concept of free will that is in opposition to determi… Read More
January 14, 2008
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Re: but if I can't love my parents: Do we romanticize the impact of parenting?
If parenting is found to have little influence on how you turn out, will you then conclude that there is nothing inherant in you as an individual? Your degree of individuality is already apparent, so not altered by discovering whether its source is home environment or something else.If you are the same as people overseas and you attribute your characteristics to parental behaviour, then you must conclude your parents must have been similar. You still haven't distinguished yourself. To distinguish yourself based on connection to those two people, even if they are similar to other parent… Read More
January 9, 2008
