RE: If free will was not real
August 3, 2016 at 6:22 am
(This post was last modified: August 3, 2016 at 6:28 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 2, 2016 at 7:45 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Influence is not compulsion or obstruction. Unless you are a robot or a creature from Mars, I assume you have experience with influence, compulsion and obstruction in your own life, and can tell the difference among them.b-mine
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Meanwhile, influence actually -is- very often compulsion or obstruction in human beings. We know this to be the case even at the trivial level of our human surface, as it were....without knowing (or needing to know) what process may be behind it all. I think it would be interesting to run an experiment, on that question though. I would expect people to have high confidence in answers with low accuracy.
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