RE: Free will and humans
March 11, 2016 at 6:03 am
(This post was last modified: March 11, 2016 at 6:04 am by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(March 11, 2016 at 5:49 am)pool the great Wrote:(March 11, 2016 at 5:33 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Simply because your actions feel free doesn't mean they are free. In a deterministic universe where humans have the illusion of free will, it would be impossible to tell whether any of your actions or decision are free. For all you know, EVERY decision you make - what to have for breakfast, what film to see, whom to marry - is simply the inexorable outcome of the mechanistic processes established when the Universe instantiated.
Sleep well.
Boru
I'd like some evidence that our future is predefined
I didn't say it was so. My point was that you have no way of knowing whether it was predefined. Your choices may only appear to be free. Let's say that you agonize over which shoe you're going to put on first in the morning. You finally 'decide' you're going to put on the left one first, all well and good. But there's simply no way to know if you were going to put on the left one first all along. Your Footgear Implementation Programme seems free, it feels free, but you can't ever determine if it is free.
Boru
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