RE: Free will
May 10, 2016 at 1:20 pm
(This post was last modified: May 10, 2016 at 1:48 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
@shadow. If the future can be known, then the future is set. Your future "choices" - are set. Nothing between this moment and those moments can change the outcomes, or your mind.
10 minutes from now, you will be presented with two options. Option A, and Option B. I have foreknowledge of the result of this scenario. You will choose B. If I actually possess such knowledge, you must..in ten minutes, "choose" b, and you have absolutely no leverage in the matter. You will not and -could not- "choose a" - this is a requirement of the truth of my claim to foreknowledge (rather than an educated guess, for example).
If that relationship between claims and subjects and future states seems, to you, a description of a "choice" or being able to "choose"...then perhaps we're simply not talking about the same thing when we use the word.
10 minutes from now, you will be presented with two options. Option A, and Option B. I have foreknowledge of the result of this scenario. You will choose B. If I actually possess such knowledge, you must..in ten minutes, "choose" b, and you have absolutely no leverage in the matter. You will not and -could not- "choose a" - this is a requirement of the truth of my claim to foreknowledge (rather than an educated guess, for example).
If that relationship between claims and subjects and future states seems, to you, a description of a "choice" or being able to "choose"...then perhaps we're simply not talking about the same thing when we use the word.
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