RE: Free will
May 26, 2016 at 7:09 pm
(This post was last modified: May 26, 2016 at 7:10 pm by dom.donald.)
If everyone and everything in the universe behaves according to a deterministic set of rules, once the initial conditions of the system have been set, everything is (necessarily) pre-determined. If you introduce any kind of 'random-ness' into the rules, then things are no longer pre-determined. The question is, are all the rules deterministic? If they are not deterministic, then things aren't predetermined, but there is still no free will.
Why couldn't these rules have evolved naturally? Is there any true randomness in the universe? Whether or not things could turn out one way or another (e.g. rules may themselves evolve), I don't believe we have free will, and that it is just an illusion.
Why couldn't these rules have evolved naturally? Is there any true randomness in the universe? Whether or not things could turn out one way or another (e.g. rules may themselves evolve), I don't believe we have free will, and that it is just an illusion.
