(July 15, 2009 at 7:55 am)Pippy Wrote:Quote:Do amoeba have free will? Bacteria? Plants? Insects? Reptiles? non-mammals? Mammals? Apes? Humans? If some do and some don't where does the dividing line sit and why?
No I don't think so. I think free will is tied to sentience, and so we would be the only creature we know of with free will. In fact, god itself may not have such a luxury.
God? Which one?
What do you base that on? That we are supposedly top of some evolutionary tree? That's just speciesism. What if a hyper-intelligent alien race arrived and assessed us as having no free will? As not being sentient? Would they be right?
(July 15, 2009 at 7:55 am)Pippy Wrote:Quote:Personally I think I have free willQuote:a little evidence would be nice!
(July 15, 2009 at 7:55 am)Pippy Wrote: I said that there is information pointing to both conclusions. You claim that there is either free will, or a good illusion of such. You go first. Or don't, but then don't expect me too.
There is no validatable evidence in support of free will, none that cannot be interpreted equally validly in other ways. I do not need to provide evidence, I am not making a claim of any sort ... I am simply assuming free will does not exist until otherwise demonstrated.
Kyu
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