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Originally Posted by Yakk
Yes, you can create a model that doesn't have any predictive value. You can even be Xiangsu, and take a model with zero predictive value -- that makes zero claims about which experiences you will have, and which you will not -- and pretend it has consequences about how you should think and how you should act.
But I discard useless models. Well, I keep them around, to see if they will have any use.
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How does determinism lack predictive value? Are you saying that the notion that all events happen as a direct and theoretically predictable result of previous events has no predictive value? I guess i'm confused by how you predict things.
Even if it lacked predictive abilities, which it doesn't, so what? Why would that make it an invalid model of reality?
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Produces a better fit, explains more with less complexity. The free will model, that each human is an actor whose actions you cannot predict.
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Tell me about these things which can be predicted by free will which cannot be predicted by determinism. Do they have to do with evolutionary psychology, where the claim is that personality traits are evolved things? Do they have to do with contemporary psychology, where people are treated as products of their past experiences? Do they have to do with neurochemistry, where we're all just reduced to bags of meat with chemical receptors?
I'm curious, being the person of strict scientific rigor that you are, where you have found evidence of free will? The last i heard, the jury was still out on whether consciousness was more than just a complex chemical reaction.