RE: If free will was not real
August 5, 2016 at 6:42 am
(This post was last modified: August 5, 2016 at 6:46 am by RozKek.)
(August 5, 2016 at 1:16 am)bennyboy Wrote:(August 5, 2016 at 1:14 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote: Compatabilist free will is trivially true and incompatabilist free will is completely false.
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I think you've captured the essence of the debate, yes.
However, when I'm buying my ice cream, the absolute truth doesn't matter to me too much-- I'm just happy to get my Rocky Road!
This is how I feel about it too, I don't give a rats ass why I decided to take an ice cream snickers, I'll just enjoy it. And to further extend it, I don't give a rats ass why my SO would like me, I just enjoy her prescence and I like her too, amirite? Of course, you can say, I like the snickers because of its taste, but it is possible to trivially extend it further out and say, well I like snickers because of the Big Bang and my neural net interacting in such a way *blablabla*. Even if it might be correct, it's not important nor does it make for a fun talk.
However I still think the lack of free will is important in more complex situtations, like in a court room, however I still do dislike that idea.