RE: Ehh... free will?
July 15, 2016 at 7:59 pm
(This post was last modified: July 15, 2016 at 8:11 pm by bennyboy.)
(July 15, 2016 at 3:28 pm)Rhythm Wrote: With free will we have no yardstick, no coherent description of what it is or how it is. No procedure for devising a test and nothing to judge the results by.
That's because free will is something one experiences, and subjective experiences, for the most part, are very hard to do science on.
When I'm standing in a candy aisle, I definitely freely choose my candy. Whether I could have "chosen otherwise" in another re-play of the moment, or whether a computer can predict my choice before I make it, is irrelevant to the fact that I'm standing there as a thinking agent, enjoying the process of choosing my delicious snack. But how do you determine whether another life form, or ANY collection of physical particles, is experiencing that?
