@chaosprime … ok, so break this down for me into tiny tiny little pieces that I can eat like thought candy. If I stand in a yellow wood, and two roads stand before me, then I can choose which road to walk? Or at least, I am able to walk either (but not both) roads. 1/n
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When (or if) I proceed down one or the other road, I have made a choice. Or at least a decision has been made? The decision is, hopefully obviously, influenced by a large number of factors: both external and internal. All of the external factors are interpreted by me. 2/n
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Replying to @jefflowrey
right, and you do in fact choose which road to walk and given an identical "you" and an identical "yellow wood" and an identical "two roads" you'll always choose the same one
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So you mean ‘deterministic’ in the sense of ‘the complete chain of events from the beginning of (some notion of) everything has created the me of that moment and the woods of that moment’. Ergo the me of that moment and the woods of that moment force the the decision?
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… ok. But that’s unprovably different from a non-deterministic state, since you can’t measure, quantify, ennumerate, or calculate that complete chain of events. Except that one can (supposedly) prove the non-deterministic nature of that nasty q word.
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So if there are two unprovable states, then isn’t it a choice to believe one or the other?
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My take on this kind of situation - two opposing and equally unprovable states - is that both are irrelevant.
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So. What would the Buddha suggest is the right approach to two opposing, yet unprovable, states? I mean, I wouldn’t really know. I’m a lapsed Unitarian Universalist.
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obviously the Buddha would recommend trolling people about them
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