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RE: Oh no not another free will thread.
April 23, 2018 at 12:10 am
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Neither, but could bob choose the banana?
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RE: Oh no not another free will thread.
April 23, 2018 at 12:20 am
(April 23, 2018 at 12:10 am)Lutrinae Wrote: At this point, I'm exhausted. Thank you for the debate.
Hey, welcome to my life lol. On AF at least.
That's why I don't engage in super long discussions anymore like I used to. Either someone gets it (even if they disagree), or they don't get it, or they do get it but pretend not to. After a good circle or 2, I just drop it.
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RE: Oh no not another free will thread.
April 23, 2018 at 12:24 am
(April 23, 2018 at 12:10 am)Khemikal Wrote: Neither, but could bob choose the banana?
Who's bob and what's a banana?
I mean, it does seem to be the go-to argument.
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RE: Oh no not another free will thread.
April 23, 2018 at 12:29 am
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He;s that guy, that Henrys on about..who's about to pick an orange, which is the thing that's not a banana..conversely, bananas are not-orange things, and bob won't be choosing one.
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RE: Oh no not another free will thread.
April 23, 2018 at 12:30 am
(April 23, 2018 at 12:29 am)Khemikal Wrote: He;s that guy, that Henrys on about..who's about to pick an orange, which is the thing that's not a banana..conversely, bananas are not-orange things, and bob won't be choosing one.
Makes perfect sense to me. He should have chosen the apple.
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RE: Oh no not another free will thread.
April 23, 2018 at 12:31 am
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Couldn't, unfortunately..there weren't any apples in bobs future. Only bananas and oranges. Bob's future sounds like a fucked up place, to me. Especially if bob hates oranges.
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RE: Oh no not another free will thread.
April 23, 2018 at 12:32 am
Fortunately, despite the future having no apples. At the present time when he wanted an apple, there was an apple tree right there.
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RE: Oh no not another free will thread.
April 23, 2018 at 12:32 am
(April 22, 2018 at 11:10 pm)Hammy Wrote: (April 22, 2018 at 10:49 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: Then you are getting rid of “will” all together; free or otherwise. Likely also getting rid of conscienceness and reason. In which case, you didn’t come to this conclusion through reason.
I don't know how you come to that non-sequtur. Consciousness and will still exists whether it's free or not.
I think you are correct, and that I may have become a bit overzealous in including consciousness. However, in either view I think that if you eliminate free will, that you also eliminate thought and reason. And it’s difficult to argue for a thing, that cuts at the very basis of debate itself.
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RE: Oh no not another free will thread.
April 23, 2018 at 12:32 am
(April 23, 2018 at 12:08 am)henryp Wrote: (April 22, 2018 at 11:18 pm)Grandizer Wrote: This would still completely invalidate the theist notion of free will, regardless of the nature of time and regardless of whether parallel worlds are a thing. God knows what you will inevitably do in this or that specific timeline because the choices are hardcoded into the system. If choices were made freely in the libertarian sense of the term, then there's no logical way God could 100% know what you end up doing in the future.
Here's my time travel hypothetical.
Bob video tapes Larry choosing between a banana and an orange. Larry chooses an orange of his own free will. Bob sends the video tape back in time to himself. Bob now knows Larry will choose an orange.
Does Bob's knowledge of Larry choosing an orange make him choose the orange? Or does Larry choosing an orange of his own free will cause Bob to know Larry will choose the orange?
No, see my previous response. Full knowledge of a future choice C does not necessarily determine the choice, but such knowledge does indicate it isn't a choice made freely in the libertarian sense.
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RE: Oh no not another free will thread.
April 23, 2018 at 12:35 am
Man states with knowledge "The world is ending on this certain date".
Does the world end on that date?
How many times has that knowledge come to pass?
So much for knowledge.
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