(July 15, 2016 at 3:59 pm)Rhythm Wrote: From the free will camp, we could say that the delay is due to signal relay limits. OFC you can't be aware of the decision you haven't yet made made, and it takes time for signals to move. This doesn't show us that the decision was not free in the relevant manner. It simply shows us that our perception is not strictly in real-time.....which I think we already knew.
Alright. I'll make two scenarios.
1) Here the universe is causal. We're going to test if a human has free will, we have a Laplace's Demon machine i.e it can completely predict everything in a causal universe. There is a person deciding to buy a car, the cars are numbered from A to F. In a causal universe Laplace's Demon can completely predict that Bob will buy car B no matter what because his neurons also consist of particles and are causal. However, the only possible scenario here would be if Bob would somehow steer his neurons independently and defy causality by allowing the neurons to not follow the causal chain. Does that make sense to you? How would that be possible?
2) The universe isn't completely causal i.e it has randomness in it. Then there is no determining, if Bob buys car A instead of B, that's completely random and there is no free choice made but an RNG choice instead.
Free will doesn't fit in any universe as far as I know. If someone else has any ideas, please enlighten me and elaborate.
