(July 16, 2016 at 1:38 am)Maelstrom Wrote: Free will is nothing more than a choice between one or more choices.You're talking about the illusion of free will now.
If free will did not exist, one would not be capable of choosing between Chinese or Mexican for dinner.
It actually is that simple.
Can you account for the reason why you would prefer Mexican over Chinese or viceversa at any given moment? But lets take preference out of it. Suppose you have two identical buttons in front of you. What makes you press #1 and not #2, given the choice? You just don't know. You might rationalize it after the fact, but the reality of it is you have no clue what happened behind the scenes, in your mind, in order for you to make that particular decision at that particular time. It was either a random event, a predetermined one, or both, but nowhere can we make space for this absurd "free will" thing, that I bet you can't even define.
