(April 3, 2016 at 3:33 pm)mh.brewer Wrote:(April 3, 2016 at 2:40 pm)Jehanne Wrote: At a minimum it is a useful illusion, kind of like a stationary Earth with respect to a moving Cosmos.
For you an illusion, for me reality.
Materialism is a bottom-up philosophy and not so much a top-down one; if you believe that you have free will, I would not want to disturb your conscience. Taken to its extreme, however, the notion of free will would justify beating Alzheimer's patients, who are, after all, just "choosing" to forget the names of their children and grandchildren. While enough beatings they would, no doubt, "choose" to remember?
