Imagination is a set of decisions,
but I'll give you the other two. Whether we have the perception of free will or not, the point is that without it the mind would have no influence on the world at all, even if the world could still have an influence on the mind. If that were the case, I am bound to merely spectate as my body argues about dualism. And if it is capable of that without me, what am I for?
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sat 16 May 2009, 16:33, archived)

Yes. Totally.
I'm not claiming that it's not bizarre on this view that there should be mind as well as matter, just that it's not illogical.
( Comma, Sat 16 May 2009, 16:37, archived)

That's why I said redundant, rather than self-contradictory.
It is necessarily impossible to disprove anything that's redundant, like invisible unicorns and teapots in space. Yes, I even used those analogies.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sat 16 May 2009, 16:41, archived)

k.

( Comma, Sat 16 May 2009, 16:42, archived)

this is how a video recorder must feel while taping a tom stoppard play

( spacefish bong!, Sat 16 May 2009, 16:39, archived)

I wonder if that's what Tom Stoppard feels
when he's writing them.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sat 16 May 2009, 16:44, archived)

Apathy,
at least that's what I feel when I watch one.
( Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Sat 16 May 2009, 16:46, archived)

You're more of an engineer than a philosopher,
I can tell.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sat 16 May 2009, 16:47, archived)

In general, yes.
But my feelings on Tom Stoppard are due to A Level English Literature.

being forced to analyse Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead for weeks on end leads to a general feeling of "shut up, I don't care anymore".
( Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Sat 16 May 2009, 16:49, archived)

ah.
that sort of thing can ruin anything.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sat 16 May 2009, 16:50, archived)