RE: Free Will - Yes/No?
May 8, 2016 at 12:13 pm
(This post was last modified: May 8, 2016 at 12:14 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(May 8, 2016 at 12:05 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: Why not? I'm not being asshole, I just really don't get it. How am I not fully in control of making that decision?
For us to be fully in control would require other factors beyond our control to not control our decisions, but they do. Any reasons we give for our behavior we can then ask "but what was the reason for that?" ultimately the reasons stretch back into the past beyond our own consciousness. These "reasons" being causes, being causality... it ultimately stretches back not just past our own conscious awareness, and not just before our adulthood, and not just before our birth, but back to the very beginning of the universe or in other words back to causality and time itself within existence itself, which I believe is eternal (the concept of existence itself ever being anything other than existent by definition seems entirely incoherent to me: existence itself has always existed, but time, causality and "the universe" began).
Oh and you're not an asshole at all. You're absolutely lovely and I'm happy to try and explain my own views on the matter to you
-Hammy
