(June 16, 2016 at 11:16 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: I don't think a tri-Omni being can itself have free will. If it is omniscient, it can foresee everything it will ever do. If it is omnipotent, it can do otherwise. But if it does otherwise, it was not actually omniscient to begin with. So an omniscient being can only do what it foresees it will do and does not possess free will in any meaningful sense, it can't choose to do other than what it already knows it will do. In effect, all its choices were made instantaneously as soon as it came into existence and can never be changed.
There are a couple of views on what free will is. My particular view leans more towards conscience responsibility in our choices (compatibilist) , and away from libertarian free will. I don't think that knowledge of a choice violates free will. For instance in such discussions; I am 99% sure, that someone is going to argue, that knowing the choice one is going to make, violates free will. Does this mean, that they only had 1% free will to do so? If because I am familiar with someone, and am fairly certain which choice they will make, does it mean that they are no longer making a conscience choice?
I also had a similar discussion a few years ago; on a Christian forum I propose the following scenario. Let say that Jill is able to go into the future, and know what choice Jack will make in a given circumstance. Now she knows what choice Jack will make, but does not tell him, or even come in contact with him, beforehand. Nothing changed in regards to Jacks choice leading up to it, other than Jill's knowledge of it. Does Jack's still have free will in this instance? Did Jack have free will; if Jill had no knowledge of what he would do?
