(July 8, 2016 at 3:49 am)Maelstrom Wrote: I have the free will to either go left or right down the street.
You say you do. And that's because your motives motivated you to say that. And ultimately your motives come from prior causes that stretch back to the beginning of the universe. You were always going to say this no matter what.
That's if determinism is true.
If determinism is false then the universe is indetermnistic, and randomness is certainly not free. If a bunch of dice at the beginning of the universe is deciding anything we are no more free than if prior causes decide everything.
Quote:If I did not have free will to choose the direction in which I could go, then that would mean I had no free will.
So the question is.... why do you think you do you have the free will to choose which direction you can go? You may have been always going to have choose that direction no matter what because it's on the path of the one possible future. The other direction at that exact point in time may be an illusory option because the option you chose was predetermined from prior causality.