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Jerry Coyne and Determinism

Cornelius Hunter
October 19, 2020
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You can see this video (youtu.be/i0Mzfq9loMQ) where I look at Jerry Coyne’s recent blog on determinism and the denial of free will, and a couple of scientific papers related to neurons and synapses. 

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BA77: I love this blatantly self-refuting statement by Jerry Coyne Yeah, I always giggle when I read stupid stuff like that. They never specify what the illusion is of. When one sees a mirage that looks like a pool of water in the distance, one may be mistaken about what one is seeing when one thinks "that is water." But if water did not exist, nobody would ever call a mirage "water." Illusions are mistaken apprehensions of something real. C.S. Lewis wrote something along the lines that if free will didn't exist (at least to some small degree) we would never know we didn't have it. The concept of free will simply could not exist in a mind that didn't have it. Just like a universe where everyone was blind would never know they were blind, and would never have concepts of sight and blindness. Both terms would be meaningless. And yet people who use the term "free will" do have a real concept in mind. How can they in a universe without free will? "Free will" would be meaningless. The term would never have arisen.mike1962
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So is his determinism making him argue for determinism? That just seems odd. What are the chances that pre-determined actions will line up with the truth?ellijacket
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I love this blatantly self-refuting statement by Jerry Coyne, "Free will is an illusion so convincing that people simply refuse to believe that we don’t have it."
THE ILLUSION OF FREE WILL - Sam Harris - 2012 Excerpt: "Free will is an illusion so convincing that people simply refuse to believe that we don’t have it." - Jerry Coyne https://samharris.org/the-illusion-of-free-will/
:) It is amazing that someone can actually write a sentence like that and not have their head explode from the logical contradiction contained within it. :) http://gph.is/2oRAEqybornagain77
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:) In a determinist world there are no contradictory conversations.JohnB
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Does Jerry Coyne, or other purveyors of mindlessness, look for traffic before crossing the road. If one were to truly believe there is no free will and everything is predetermined, then there should be no cause to look for traffic.BobRyan
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Jerry Coyne is obviously not keeping up with current Neuroscience he might wanna check out https://neurophil-freewill.org/ They are current they do not support his point of view He’s either ignored or is unaware of the stochastic model, he either doesn’t know about Aaron Schurger or he’s willfully ignorant That website provide everybody with some of the biggest names in the science of Free willAaronS1978
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