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Dawn Bertot
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Message 161 of 211 (634067)
09-18-2011 8:00 PM
Reply to: Message 159 by rueh
09-18-2011 5:58 PM


This is the same argument that I was making however it falls victim to the same pitfalls I described in Message 155 If all principles describe what reality is actualized, then willingness can describe if you are able or unable. In which case the possibilities do not fall into the two categories of either unwilling or unable. They fall solely under either able or unable. Maybe it's like Yoda said "there is no try, there is only do or do not"
this is absolutely true as well. Limiting it however does not change that willingness still applies. Nor does it change the fact that there is no other word, concept or idea different than Able or unable
Grammaticaly it may be correct but it explains no reason as to why you are unable.
Sure it does. relity or physical properties have limitation itself, that is why things are the way they ar and why we can desribe them as Able and unable
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Message 162 of 211 (634068)
09-18-2011 8:05 PM
Reply to: Message 160 by RAZD
09-18-2011 7:54 PM


Re: message 150 is dumb
This is the problem that Dawn Bertot has, when you force the conclusion to meet your preconceptions, it is pseudologic (like pseudoscience).
fortunately reality is not a perconception, it defines Able and willing,not the other way around and that is the problem you are having
Reuh writes:
I have yet to find any other reasons to prove that Spocks logic is sound but rest assured I will still gaze at my navel in search of an answer. Until then thank you for the discussion.
Until RAZD can provide another term that does not fall under willing and able he has failed. He would have presented that word a long time ago, had he been able. i have shown that none of his attempts at terms thus far will work
Notice how he made no attempt to respond to my argument that he needs to demonstrate how apathy doesnt involve will. he wont do this because he knows there is no way to seperate the two
Hence any terms thus presented by him have failed
Do you notice that he wont just say, "This is the term that is different than willing or able, ______"
RAZD, simply provide a term that I have not already demonstrated that will not work. Or present the term again you have already presented and the reasons it is different in simple english and one liners, without disortations and lectures. Then perhaps we can discuss it open and honestly
here it is again. The alternate or different word to describe any action in the physical world besides willining and able, unwilling and unable is______________. Fill in the blank
Dawn Bertot
Thank you
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Message 175 of 211 (634216)
09-19-2011 10:42 PM
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09-19-2011 9:24 PM


Re: several terms already provided - no refutation
Unfortunately opinion, including yours, has no effect on reality.
Whoa, slow down there homie, I ve now got 4 of your new posts to respond to, let me get to these before you give anymore to me
Thanks Dawn Bertot

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Message 176 of 211 (634330)
09-20-2011 6:26 PM
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09-19-2011 12:58 PM


Re: The sunflower test
I don't need another word, Dawn, I just need to show that [able]ness and [willing]ness are not sufficient to categorize all the possibilities to falsify your claim that they are.
In this specific case we have eliminated [willing]ness because there is no mechanism within the sunflower to be [willing] or un[willing].
You have only eliminated it if you are not talking about human behavior. otherwise it still applies and no behavior will be described except by willing and unwilling
That leaves [able]ness as the only remaining control if you are correct.
However we have one (1) situation where the sunflower responds to the movement of the sunlamp and we have one (1) situation where the sunflower does not respond to the movement of the sunlamp.
The [able]ness of the sunflower to turn with the sunlamp is demonstrated everytime it is tested with the sunlamp on, so it does not lose this [able]ness in between tests.
Obviously, the sunflower is not [able] to turn the sunlamp on, so that is not a requirement for the sunflower to be [able] to respond.
We also find through this testing that if the sunflower is [able] to respond to the sunlamp when it is on, that it is not un[able] to respond -- it responds every time.
The sunflower is not in control over whether it turns to face the sunlamp or not, and the [able]ness of the sunflower does not determine whether it turns to face the sunlamp or not.
This is alot of rehetoric and only the last sentence has any validity.
Control is not the issues. if the sunflower can perform its internal functions, however, whenever, wherever it is ABLE to complete its function
the sunflower illustration in no way removes the only two categories unless you are speaking about unwilling, simply because it does not apply
The [able]ness of the sunflower to function is not sufficient to explain the behavior.
true because ableness is decided not by an organism but by laws already in place that act upon that organism.
The behavior of the sunflower is programed\compulsive, with an internal programed\compulsive switch: if the switch is on the sunflower turns, if the switch is off the sunflower does not turn.
The switch is turned [on] if there is an external stimulus (sunlight, sunlamp on) and the switch is turned [off] if the external stimulus is absent. The sunflower does not control the switch.
The behavior of the sunflower is controlled by the presence or absence of an external stimulii not under it's control.
It's behavior is compulsive\programed to act according to the switch.
Again ABLENESS of the sunflower is not what decides ableness and willingness. This is decided by reality and laws already in place before the sunflower functions
By using the example of the sunflower you must believe the flower has certain existing programmed functions. If the purpose of the sunflower is to blossom and this brings it to fruiton, then it does not matter how this happens. it will only be able or unable to do this, depnding upon the already existing laws that surround it, oe whether it has a defect
What is the purpose of the sunflower to begin with
The behavior of the sunflower is controlled by the presence or absence of an external stimulii not under it's control.
exacally, this is why ableness and unableness exist before the sunflower fuctions, or whether it does or not. No action in the mind or the physical world will fall outside able or unable, because the person or the funtion of any property is not what decides ableness or unableness
Existing laws already in place will determine whether a thing can funtion or not
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Dawn Bertot
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Message 177 of 211 (634332)
09-20-2011 6:48 PM
Reply to: Message 169 by RAZD
09-19-2011 7:02 PM


Re: the other words . . .
When we talk about the crew, it is their [able]ness or [willing]ness that applies, not anyone else, as that is who we evaluate for [able]ness or [willing]ness.
Even the second ships crews ableness and willing ness is irrelivant.. the condition that is preventing them is outside themselves. Some law of a physical nature was interrupted, broke or ignored
So even when they were willing and able, the source from which able and unable orginates acts to prevent or make them unable to contact the other ship
No, Bertot, he is [able] according to the definitions provided, and he is [willing] according to the definitions provided, but he is over-ruled - there are rules that prevent the action from being complete.
The task is not complete due to reasons beyond his control and beyond the scope of whether HE is [able] and [willing] to do the task.
The task could be
vetoed by his commanding officer,
assigned to someone else (so the task is completed by someone else)
it may be delayed,
it may be ignored (ambivalent\apathy again) OR
the commanding officer could be waiting for further information before making a decision (undecisive).
again Zen deist, you are letting a book decide the strict definiton of reality, instead of reality defining reality.
"Reason beyond his control" are called laws of reality that make him unable to complete that task. Unableness does not originate in a person or organism, it is decided by laws that superceed those properties, its called reality
Curiously, I have provided several terms and conditions:
Ambivalence (conflicted)
Apathy (don't care)
Insufficient time (being done, not done yet)
Programs (such as security programs)
Compulsions (compulsive action \ compulsive inaction)
Rules
Choice by chance (flipping a coin)
wrong these are responses, or we could call them responses to reality and I could add 10000 more to the list. But as I have demonstrated they do not describe anything different besides willing or able, because they dont decide what able and willing is or is not. Reality does this for us
I have shown that no matter your example that reality and its laws only makes able or unable possible, depending on the task, you bellieve the property should accomplish
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Message 178 of 211 (634338)
09-20-2011 7:09 PM
Reply to: Message 169 by RAZD
09-19-2011 7:02 PM


Re: the other words . . .
You cannot control the flip of a coin. There is no aspect of [able]ness or [willing]ness that can control these external conditions.
Another word I give you is chaotic -- the general unpredictability of things that cannot be controlled.
There is no such thing as chaos. everything has a logical explanation for its actions, IOWs one thing flows from another reason, they are called laws of nature and reason
When the law prevents me I am unable, no matter the circumstance and no other word can be found to descibe unable
Chaos is a human expression with no basis in reality
Surely you cant be serious about me not controlling the flip of a coin
The result of the coins flip is determined by strength, pressure, wieight of the coin and anyother law already in place, acted upon the coin
it is not chaotic or random, because those do not actually exist, its only the laws of nature or reality, going through thier motions
The result of the coins flip is only unknown (not random or chotic)to me because I have not at that moment figured out the laws that made its result, what it was. but those laws still exist even in that moment, even if I dont know what they were
There is no such thing as randomness or chaos
here is an example. If God exists and he is all knowing, would it be any trouble for him to make the coin come up heads 1000 times out of 1000, without any majic involved? Not at all, because he knows all the laws that would be required in that moment, to make that happen
So what you are desribing as chaotic is nothing of the sort. If I understood those laws required in that moment or in those consecutive tries, I could make the coin come up heads everytime
Therefore I am unable, not because I dont have the ABILITY to possibly know those laws, but because I dont at that moment know all the laws required to accomplish that feat
So while I have the ability from a logical standpoint, Im unable due to an outside inability
Now pay close attention. That which you describe as randomness, the coin coming up tales instead of heads, is not actually randomness, its simply existing laws being acted upon given the physics of any toss. No randomness in reality, just inaccuracy on my part by not abiding by the laws of nature,, correct?
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Message 179 of 211 (634360)
09-20-2011 11:46 PM
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09-19-2011 9:24 PM


Re: several terms already provided - no refutation
There is no aspect of [able]ness or [willing]ness that can control these external conditions.
Sure there is. If I am able to know and employ the necessary laws already in place Those external conditions will make me able, correct?

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Message 183 of 211 (634474)
09-22-2011 1:16 AM
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09-21-2011 12:51 AM


Re: The sunflower test - again
ssive Compulsive behavior is similar. A person with OCD is forced to behave in certain ways, whether they are willing to behave in that manner or not (and it frequently is in spite of being unwilling to behave that way because of embarrassment). It over-rides [willing]ness.
So you are saying that an inability or unableness overrides willingness, correct?
d you say that its internal functions oare the functionCorrect, but when the external stimulus\signal is blocked or not sent it does not perform its internal functions to turn with the sun\sunlamp, even though it is able to do so.
Would you say that its internal functions ARE the function of the sunflower and they are its purpose as an organism?
But I'm not removing both. You have agreed that [willing]ness does not apply to the sunflower: there is, of course, no brain to be willing, but how do you explain the difference in behavior of the sunflower when you admit that it is [able] to function:
Because you havent told me what the function and purpose of the sunflower is, so as to determine if itis able to complete its function
Why does the sunflower not turn to match the location of the sun on a cloudy day? -- it is "ABLE to complete its function" so what prevents it?
Why does the sunflower not turn to match the location of the sunlamp when it is off? -- it is" ABLE to complete its function" so what prevents it?
Forgive me RAZD these are really stupid questions
it does not turn to the sun, because it is programmed to react by the sun. Hence even in this instance it is ABLE to complete its program of not responding
What we have instead of a subjective [willing]ness decision making process, is an objective programmed response that reacts according to the program and the input to the program.
Not quit as verbose but Yeah, thats what I just said, "its able"
The sunflower is either [able] or un[able] to respond, depending on its genetics, development, nutrition etc.
The sunflower is either [programmed] or not[programmed] to respond, depending on its genetics, development, nutrition etc.
If [programmed] the sunflower reacts one way (turns) to positive inputs, and a different way (does not turn) to negative inputs, inputs that can vary from minute to minute.
Again, response is not the issue. is it ABLE to NOT react, at times, according to its programming, Yes. Is it ABLE to react at times according to its programming, Yes
Hence able
Oh dear, what's going on here? Invention of an external [able]ness to prop up your claim? You are just sticking the word out there to attempt to claim that it now is a matter of [able]ness what decision is made by the program. That is not part of the definitions of the term [able] agreed to in Message 26: "having necessary power, skill, resources, or qualifications; qualified; having the necessary power, resources, skill, time, opportunity; possessed of needed powers or of needed resources to accomplish an objective."
You sound desperate. My claim as has always been, "that it is now a matter of ableness"
have you been here the past few weeks?
I agreed to those definitions because they describe reality, not single organisms or personal decisions
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Message 184 of 211 (634475)
09-22-2011 1:29 AM
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09-21-2011 12:51 AM


Re: The sunflower test - again
Laws\rules and programs do not have [able]ness, they either work or they don't.
Im not even going to touch that one, do you see what you just did, you affirmed my position
The [able]ness is or isn't exhibited, it isn't 'decided' to be [able] or un[able] by some external source, but is a characteristic of the acting object - in this case the sunflower, where you have admitted that it is "ABLE to complete its function" -- and this is the only [able]ness that applies.
Wrong. Even in the case of the 2nd ship, while they were able in theory to make a response, were impeded by an outside external source. Namely that sorry son of a buck named Ricrdo Montbon. "with my last breath I spit at thee, from hells heart i stab at thee
wrong, even if the sunflower is able to NOT turn to the sun by its programming, it is Unable to complete its ultimate mission of polination, blossoming, so RAZD can admire its beauty,
Flower Boy
You might as well say "god/s-did-it" then and because god/s is [able] and [willing] then everything is due to the [able]ness and [willing]ness of god/s. This is called moving the goal posts, which is dishonest.
this statement has always amuzed me. why do you assume the goals posts were in the right position to begin with, because you liked where they were at?
except for one illustration, I havent even mentioned God
No everything is able and willing because of reality
But now pay close attention!!!!!!!!!!!
In truth there is no such thing as able or unable, there is only reality
however, when willingness by man or animal is figured in, then able and unable become a reality
decision making or the thought process is independant of reality, because thoughts have no reality. but they do make Able and Willing a reality. Otherwise there is just reality
Now do you see what I am saying
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Message 188 of 211 (634595)
09-23-2011 12:21 AM
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09-22-2011 5:57 PM


Re: the other words . . .
This doesn't make sense to me. When I look at the definitions we agreed on, they applied to an actor and an action to be taken: either the actor is [able] to take the action or not AND [willing] to take the action or not. Those are the boundaries of the issue.
If you go outside those boundaries, then we can consider that Little Tommie is [able] to tie his shoes but unwilling to do so, and his sister Matilda is [willing] to tie them for him, but un[able] to catch him to do it.
As a result, the crew did not send a response?
of course it applies to the scenario in the movie, but My original implication was that it applies to reality. Remember me saying at one point forget about the scenario
Of course they didnt send a response, most were tied up or dead another was screaming like a girl, whilst getting a thorny, horny worm stuck in his ear. crybaby
hence Spocks statement applies to this disruption of laws that would otherwise allow them, therefore inability, because they were unable to respond, because of an outside influence, Kahn. IOWs something other than thier inability
Can you provide any examples of this occurring?
I just did
Are you saying that perhaps the sun doesn't 'rise' one day (according to the laws of physics regarding the earth spinning on it's axis) and this makes the sunflower un[able] to function? Yet we know the sunflower IS [able] to function, it just doesn't get the external stimulus because of absence of sunlight.
First tell me what is the goal or function of the sunflower
No, the "source from which able and unable" comes from within the actor and from the technical devices or resources in their control (definitions, Message 26):
Did you fall and hit your head whilst riding your bike?
wrong. like the function and purpose of the sunflower, in the scenario, you shift back and forth on what impeded thier success in completing the response
you mix up responses with success or ultimate goals. The goal of the second ship was not to simply respond and therefore claim they were able and therefore sucessful
Something outside themselves impeded thier goal of getting a message thru. thier willingness is not simply to respond,but get the message thru
So while they were willing from every aspect they were unable to accomplish thier task, Correct?
Where would you get the nusty idea that unable only refers to the actor and the things at his disposal. even so, wouldnt the things at his disposal include someone shoving a bug in your ear
Def 1. having necessary power, skill, resources, or qualifications; qualified: able to lift a two-hundred-pound weight; able to write music; able to travel widely; able to vote.
Def 2. having the necessary power, resources, skill, time, opportunity, etc, to do something: able to swim
Def 3: possessed of needed powers or of needed resources to accomplish an objective able to perform under the contract]
I think the people that gave these definitions, did not feel it necessary to explain that someones inability, whilst having all of the above, could be interuppted by an outside source. and therefore make it unable, even possesing the above in theory.
I bet they thought most people would be able to figure that out.
So the whim of a superior officer, someone with different needs and agenda, is a "law of reality"???
Yes ,it is reality if it happened and therefore a law
Is this superior officer the reason that I end up riding my bicycle in the rain even though I am un[willin]g (but [able]) to do so?
Can you provide another word besides able or willing to explain your actions
No, Dawn Bertot, these are not things that make the soldier un[able] to perform the task - he has all the [able]ity to do so. They ARE reasons that the task is not completed.
Was he able or unable to have the ability?
Was he able or unable to complete the task?
Was the task able or unable to be completed?
The physical reality of the earth spinning on its axis means that there is no sunlight when it is behind the other side of the earth, and that whether there is sunlight when it is on the same side of the earth is affected by the physical reality of clouds and weather.
These are not things that have a capacity to be [able] or [willing], they are inanimate objects exhibiting their normal everyday behavior. This behavior does affect whether the sunflower turns to face the sun, but they do not affect the [able]ness or the [willing]ness of the sunflower.
So ableness in your view is whether the sunflower only has the capacity, but not whether it completes its function, correct
Wouldnt the purpose or function, define the task and hence make it able or unable to complete its intended purpose
So, if , "This behavior that DOES affect whether the sunflower does turn to face the sun", wouldnt this behavior by the sun affect whether it is able or unable to complete its ultimate goal? IOWs an outside influence
Lets say someone walks by and steps on the sunflower, so while the flower from a genetic standpoint still has the microscopic ABILITY to turn to the sun, will someone stepping on it prevent it from completing its goal or purpose, therefore make it unable
So do you still want to argue that ableness and unableness is limited to the flower and not another outside influence
However:
Even if I go with your interpretation of the source of ableness or unableness, it still only comes up Able or unable, correct?
Dawn bertot
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Message 189 of 211 (634596)
09-23-2011 1:08 AM
Reply to: Message 186 by RAZD
09-22-2011 9:07 PM


Re: the other words . . . chaos rules
In other words you just assume that IF you were able to understand and control all the factors involved, that THEN you could produce consistent heads or tails at will.
In reality, however, a person using a coin as a random generator will not attempt such control, but will instead use a common approach, with a variety of slight variations due to the biological improbability of exactly repeating any action in precisely the same way, and where these minute variations have chaotically large effect on the results: large end differences from minute initial variation, built into the biological system and surrounding conditions (wind, acceleration, etc).
Curiously, in reality, we see that overall probability shows mostly heads and tails in comparable numbers -- approaching very similar numbers as the total number of tosses increases. We also see, in reality, some results that are not heads or tails - the coin is not caught, falls in a crack, rolls off the table or it even lands on edge: rare compared to the normal heads or tails, but occurring in reality, none the less. Normally we say that the probability is 50:50, but that is not correct in reality. In reality it is more like 49.99999% heads, 49.99999% tails and 0.00002% other. Usually, in reality, when there is an "other" result, the toss is repeated to obtain a heads or a tails, because that is the desired randomized result.
Simply give me an example in the real world, that is not one thing happenings as a result of another. A logical sequence of events. there is no such thing as chaos
This is precisely what you are doing with the coin toss scenario.
It is possible to envisage an [able]ity to be control the coin toss precisely to cause a desired result, but it is not practical.
It is practical to envisage a [willing]ness to operate a coin toss in an unpredictable manner and an [able]ity to generate random results from it.
If I understood all the physical laws each time I tossed the coin, I could control what I wanted it to be. Because those laws exist in reality and they are not random, because there is no such thing as random, its a made up word that does not reflect reality, that is only laws and events flowing one from another. No chaos, no randomness
Without a lot of verbage and complicated examples, give me an example of chaos or randomness in the real world, not with numbers or symbols
It is possible to envisage an [able]ity to be control the coin toss precisely to cause a desired result, but it is not practical.
To see ones self doing something is not the same as knowing that if I understood all the facts which actually do exist, that I could control the results
God is all knowing, which means he knows even the most minute details. It means he could throw the coin to the desired result an unlimited amount of times
he would not need to work out any details, as the so-called details are already a part of his enternal existence
Here's another "what if" scenario: what if god/s are almost all knowing and almost all powerful in their ability to create a universe, and they decide that they don't want to know or be able to predict the results of their creation ...
This is like asking if god can make a rock bigger than he can lift, its nonsensical
God cannot NOT know something or choose to not know something, thats idiocy.
He is law and all knowledge at the sametime, there is no sepration or suppressing it by himself
The moment he chose (in theory0 to forget something, which he could not do anyway, he would cease to be God
How do you seperate infinity from infinity. Heres a hint, you cant, its a logical impossibility
Even God cannot do that which is logically impossible, because 'logical impossibility' is a concept, it does not exist in reality
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Message 190 of 211 (634649)
09-23-2011 9:13 AM
Reply to: Message 187 by RAZD
09-22-2011 9:25 PM


Re: several terms already provided - no refutation
YOU may be [able] and [wiling] to do this, however it does not affect the [able]ness of the sunflower or its compulsion to behave according to the internal program. And it STILL won't turn when the sun is not out or the lamp is not on, even though it is still [able] to do so and is still compulsively behaving according to the internal program.
This is silly. Able in theory is not able in actuality. I may have the ability to fall off a building, but until it happens, its not actually a real thing.
Therefrore your imagining that ability is actual, even when it did not happpen does not constitute Able. Your just muzing or waxing philosophical
demonstrate how an imagined ability is actually real. One can only theorize of its actuality, because it was not carried out
Dawn Bertot

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Message 193 of 211 (635018)
09-25-2011 6:36 PM
Reply to: Message 192 by RAZD
09-25-2011 5:06 PM


Re: The sunflower test - again now with flower power added!!!!
That's where the goal posts were at the start.
Now I'm going to ride my bike, and I am betting that it won't rain.
Whew, I thought you had given up, glad to see you hadnt.
Have fun riding your bkie Zen Deist, Ill get to the task of destroying both your latest arguments and ego a bit later. Ha Ha
Dawn Bertot
Do you know what the Zen Deist said to the hot dog vender, "Make me one with everything"
Sorry I had to

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Message 194 of 211 (635029)
09-25-2011 9:47 PM
Reply to: Message 191 by RAZD
09-25-2011 4:32 PM


Re: The sunflower test - again & again ...
I am saying that OCD people are partly like the sunflower: when a specific stimulus occurs they behave in a specific way, but when it doesn't occur that they can behave in a more normal fashion.
This is independent of [able]ness and [willing]ness.
Unfortunately this is double talk. By discribing OCB you have contrasted it with what is considered normal behavior. Why you would conclude that this is something different than ability, is beyond me.
You have simply stated they are unable to act in a normal fashion, or what you consider normal
I find it interesting that you keep saying that this or that is independant from able or willinng, or you say able or willing does not cover this or that area, but then wont provide a word that is different than those two or is not covered by those two
Youve amazingly stated that you dont need another word, but with more double talk assure us that it is different than able or willing
Sunflowers got purpose?
Ofcourse they do. Sunflowers exist in real time, they function, they live and die, they all do the samething
You are the one that is using them as an example. You therefore believe they have function and purpose. What is it?
It's not a "program of not responding" it completes its program by responding and it completes its program by not responding.
Ok, so provide me another word in either of these instances, that is different than and means something other than able or unable
What is different about the sunflower that causes response in one instance and no response in the other?
If there is no difference in the sunflower, then the result is not dependent on the [able]ness of the sunflower.
We have already established that there is no [willing]ness involved in this plant,
Thus we establish that we cannot explain the different responses of the sunflower with the [able]ness and [willing]ness of the sunflower, but that we need to look at a wider set of behavior control categories for the sunflower.
We find that [program]ing answers the issue of different behaviors.
It does not matter if programming answers the issue of different behaviors. Hyothetically, If there never was any sunlight, after say, the plant was only half developed it would be unable to complete its ultimate funtion of blooming or polination or whatever its ultimate purpose is
Your huge mistake is assuming that ability has only to do with the flower itself. it does not matter whether these (Laws) are only laws functioning or not, they affect the flowers ablilty. One could theorize a nuclear holocost or meteroite hit that would block the sun for huge amounts of time, at which case it would render the flower unable to complete its function
Erronesously you assume that able and unable are obligated to describe the flowers programming. they have nothing to do with that directly, as a part of the flowers makeup. they only decide if the flower will or will not complete its intended design and function
The sunflower may have many programmed functions, but only one one real purpose.
Correction 1: response IS the issue, it is the action that applies to the situation.
Correction 2: is it ABLE to NOT react, at ALL times, according to its programming, Yes. Is it ABLE to react at ALL times according to its programming, Yes.
The [able]ness of the sunflower to do both programed actions\responses is simultaneously present at ALL times.
Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't react, however in ALL times it is "ABLE to react" ...
That [able]ness does not determine the response.
Again with respect, this is nonsense, (yours not mine)
Heres why. Imagined ability and inablity is not real. Something has to actually happen in reality for ability and inability to be real themselves.
When the sunflower is hit by the sun it turns. When there are clouds or night blocking the sun, this is a real action taking place that makes the flower unable to complete its function or programming.
Your huge mistake is assuming that ability and inability only take place in the organism itself. All of reality make things able or unable, not just the organism, or imagined ability or inability
Are you starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel, or are the rocks blocking the sun?
There is no such thing as ableness and unableness existing at the sametime, when refering to the same specific function, of the same specific organism
the ability to turn or not turn are not ableness at the sametime, that is an imagined property not a real one. it is only able or unable at any given time in reality. You cant just make stuff up and hope it is real, it has to be real
f you are not doing this, then we are back again to the sunflower and the task of turning to face the lightsource, rather than planets orbiting the sun.
Being desperate is claiming "that it is now a matter of ableness" without showing how that explains the different behaviors of the sunflower.
Zen Deist, all of reality and its functioning laws make able and unable a reality and all affect those real causes. Imagined abilites dont really exits, that is why your argument seems to work in theory, but doesnt work upon closer examination, or in reality
It also demonstrates that all of the laws in reality determine what able and unableness are or are not. It also clarifies the fact that there are no other areas (words) to describe actions in reality except, Able and unable
Imagined abilites or uncaused ableness or inability, as you have postualted are no more real than Chaos or randomness
Dawn Bertot
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Message 195 of 211 (635030)
09-25-2011 10:05 PM
Reply to: Message 192 by RAZD
09-25-2011 5:06 PM


Re: The sunflower test - again now with flower power added!!!!
So the cause of the response not being received by the enterprise was that it was blocked, and not because they were unable or unwilling. Thanks.
Able or unable in Reality, ZD, not just from a perspective or imagined scenario and thats all that matters is reality. The blocking is reality, the blocking made it unable in reality, not just from ones perspective
here is the difference in your position and mine.
Imagining what the sunflowers abilites are or are not in theory is not what is happening in reality. reality says at any given moment it is either responding or it is not, depending on sources outside itself.
What was actually blocking the signal in reality and what was happening at that moment to make able or unable. Non-reality is imagining what thier abilites or capabilites were or were not in that moment, only one was real. Guess which one
Starting to get it?
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