(July 28, 2016 at 12:30 am)Maelstrom Wrote: Oh, look, I had the free will to once again post here.
Yes, that's free will, because it means I could have kept not responding or respond once again.
Free will is essentially choice, the ability to choose between two options.
But you have no way of demonstrating that you could have chosen differently. You can't go back in time and choose a different option, so you're just assuming that you could have made a different choice and declaring free will is real based on that assumption.
The fact is that you have no proof that you could have made a different choice.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell