Information and free will (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, October 06, 2011, 21:12 (4797 days ago) @ dhw


> In the light of the above, I hope you can now see why I argued that the free will discussion would ultimately lead to the question of an immaterial identity. But on a philosophical level, free will is mighty hard to prove! -I don't know why you say that. I am an innocent wandering in the philosophical woods. I think free will is easy to prove. The problem is we do not know the basis of consciousness.
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> I do remember quantum 'spookiness' and I remember the dictum that anyone who said he understood quantum mechanics didn't understand quantum mechanics. You don't know how it works ... and of course no-one else does either. That is the territory you share with the materialist, who will argue that the brain is the seat and source of consciousness/ will/mind/identity, though he too has no idea how it works. And he may also argue that it is the only answer he can come up with to fit his theories, all of which come from a scientific look at living matter and the cosmos. Because living matter and the cosmos are material, and we do not know of any form of consciousness/identity that is not part of the material, living world.-I believe materialist reductionism will not explain emergent properties like consciousness. I'm not with the materialists. I believe the quantum level of reality is in charge in those issues.
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> DAVID: An attempt at a new book is forming in my consciousness: "A Path to God thru Science". :>()
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> David, your first book was an immensely important contribution to my own grasp of many issues. Please exercise your famous free will, and write the new book before you're prevented from doing so by factors beyond your control!-That was my second book. My first book is about American politics, a libertarian's view of the stupidity in Washington.