The trouble with this is that there is no possible way to determine if a given action is truly free, or just 'feels' free.
Suppose you have eggs for brekkie. You look through the fridge and the cupboards and settle on eggs. Such an action certainly feels free, but how can you possibly know? It could very well be the case, from the instantiation of the universe, that you would have eggs on this particular morning in question.
Such a quandary necessarily applies to all seeming 'choices' we make - what we like in books, whom we marry, whether we visit a park or a cinema on a given day, and so on.
Personally, I think the universe is deterministic, but I like the feeling that the illusion of free will gives me. Best of both worlds.
Boru
Suppose you have eggs for brekkie. You look through the fridge and the cupboards and settle on eggs. Such an action certainly feels free, but how can you possibly know? It could very well be the case, from the instantiation of the universe, that you would have eggs on this particular morning in question.
Such a quandary necessarily applies to all seeming 'choices' we make - what we like in books, whom we marry, whether we visit a park or a cinema on a given day, and so on.
Personally, I think the universe is deterministic, but I like the feeling that the illusion of free will gives me. Best of both worlds.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
