(May 8, 2016 at 4:54 pm)paulpablo Wrote:(May 8, 2016 at 7:52 am)Irrational Wrote: Why? Even given determinism, you still can do what you want to do.
My mindset when it comes to free will vs determinism basically boils down to.
1) It's not an important question, we're here now, let's get on with it.
2) Because I care so little about if we have free will or if everything is determined and I'm not intelligent enough to fathom proof for either side and I have 0 motivation to look over all the proof for either side, I'm basically just going to pick the option which I feel psychologically makes me feel better.
For me everything being predetermined, the idea of it, takes away the passion I have for life. Like if a warrior is a believer of determinism and he goes to the battlefield wondering "Hmmm I wonder who will be predetermined to win this battle." I think it will be detrimental to his frame of mind as opposed to a warrior who is set on a achieving a personal victory and doesn't just see the battle as a bunch of predetermined statistics and numbers.
If this question wasn't asked in a thread on this forum I'd just totally ignore it because I don't give a shit about the answer of free will vs determinism, but since the question is being asked and I do sometimes consider the question to myself this is my answer and I fully admit my answer is based purely on emotion and psychology.
Just jumping in here. In my view determinism is not the same thing as fatalism. From the perspective of the system it's logically impossible to have knowledge of the future, so I disagree that determinism should have any negative effect on the quality of life. Thinking like that for that warrior would be a futile exercise and lead to all sorts of paradoxes. As a hard determinist I certainly don't think like that. If you start trying to second-guess a 'foretold' future, you can always change it so it's impossible, even hypothetically for the experience of free will and knowledge of the future to co-exist.
