RE: Ehh... free will?
July 15, 2016 at 8:58 pm
(This post was last modified: July 15, 2016 at 9:04 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I'd simply suggest that a person isn't "free to choose their candy" in any way more meaningful than a computer can "freely will" to turn left or right presented with an intersection or obstruction. Free will always ends up sounding like a triviality, when expressed in this way. Sure, you "freely willed" your candy, so long as the terms free and will aren't all that important or specific. It's so trivial, in this sense, that accepting that you've done so doesn't actually make -me- accept free will.
You may be waiving your hands.....but doing so does not establish that you've done it freely. Were you waiving your hands a moment before, or is there an instigating event here, a cause, in the face of which you just suddenly feel compelled to waive your hands? I only ask because regardless of whether or not we possess this free will business I'm confident that we all experience a great deal of behavior that we cannot..even as the experiencers, describe as such.
You may be waiving your hands.....but doing so does not establish that you've done it freely. Were you waiving your hands a moment before, or is there an instigating event here, a cause, in the face of which you just suddenly feel compelled to waive your hands? I only ask because regardless of whether or not we possess this free will business I'm confident that we all experience a great deal of behavior that we cannot..even as the experiencers, describe as such.
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