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Old 04-22-2008, 11:31 AM
Paul C. Anagnostopoulos Paul C. Anagnostopoulos is offline
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Originally Posted by David
Maybe free will, and certain other characteristics of consciousness (appreciation of qualia, etc.) are equivalent to axioms!

In other words, unless a theory contains these 'axioms' (I know I am using the term a bit loosely) it describes a zombie universe in which nothing conscious can exist.
Well, it's pretty unsatisfying to consider them axioms. And in the case of libertarian free will, it's incoherent, so axiomatizing it doesn't help.

~~ Paul
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