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Conservation And Open

Posted on:2010-01-04Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:B XiaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2120360275968560Subject:Philosophy of science and technology
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Kant said:Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe,the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: The starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.But when we look up to the stars,the stars are not there already,and even does not exist in this university for a long time,what we have is only the phantom left by the universe.Well then,what is our heart? And what is our will? Is it just the illusion existed in our brain,or the exhibition of true self generated from the law of physical world? Is it free or already restricted by the countless causal relationship? And is it integrated with our body as a whole, or just living in another world,taking our body as a temporary home?In this paper,it starts from the classification of determinism,and refers to several ideas related to determinism and free will,then takes focus on two specific forms of determinism,that is logical determinism and scientific determinism.Here a tiny rebutment is made to the opinion of logical determinism.Since it relates to temporal logic,the refutation seems a little weak and not always right to certain degree.Following which is the narration for several specific forms of scientific determinism,and educes the concept of constraint from a fictional determinism world.At the second chapter,it focuses on the orthogonality of substance property,from here, together with the conclusion of the first chapter,a discussion for the conservative and open natures of the world develops.It enumerates three questions related with free will in the third chapter,and goes into the discussion from a predicted test and existed problems of zombie respectively.At the end of this chapter,it expatiates the relationship between free will and the conservative and internal open natures of the world.Free will,even if it is not the most interesting matter of philosophy,at least,it can be regarded as one of the most interesting.Books about free will are voluminous,among which,unusual but wonderful thinking emerges like an endless stream.Considering to the little talent and less experience of the writer myself,this paper is not aimed to have a synthesis discussion about free will,but rather bring out my own ideas about this matter,which might be not mature.This opinion can be summed up as "from the perspective of internal open nature of the world,free will has the orthogonal nature with current physical laws." And of course,this ides also satisfies the author himself with the happiness,that may exists in his innermost,and self-righteousness,self-minded and simple.
Keywords/Search Tags:conservative, open, orthogonality, constraint
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