RE: Free will
May 26, 2016 at 3:33 am
(This post was last modified: May 26, 2016 at 3:34 am by Ignorant.)
(May 25, 2016 at 6:55 pm)IATIA Wrote: The same goes for anything. You have a choice, the red pill or the blue pill. If god knows that you will pick the blue pill (even I know you would pick the blue pill) then it is impossible for you to choose the red pill, ergo, no choice.
[Please see previous page for a response to your other comments]
Yes of course, I much prefers my blissful ignorance of reality. Blue pill every time! I need my sky-god and free-will! Life is too scary without them! =)
Again, I agree that it would be impossible for me to choose the red pill given those conditions. But the fact that there are any conditions at all, and that different conditions (e.g. god knowing that I will pick the red pill) could make it impossible for me to choose the blue pill, mean that the impossibility is not due to necessity. If different conditions can exist which provide for a different outcome, the impossibility is not due to lack of actually possible outcomes, but due to the infallible determination made among possibilities.
So, until you can distinguish between determination, necessity and contingency, why even attempt to discuss choice?