(August 3, 2016 at 9:32 am)Little lunch Wrote: Ok, ok, forget the rock part.
You have a point but I don't think it changes what I'm saying. What I'm trying to say.
I personally cannot believe in free will until someone gives me the faintest of a reason for why I do things apart from the idea that it's all a natural progression of links that we have no control over. How could that be free will?
No one here is arguing for that kind of free will, i.e. libertarian free will.
What I'm saying (I'll let bennyboy speak for himself) is that if one is free to make choices in accordance with one's nature, intent, desire, preference, whatever you want to call it, then that indicates a will that can reasonably be considered free.
Free, by the way, is a word that can mean so many different things depending on context. But come to think of it, how are you, and the others arguing similar to you, defining free?
I'm guessing you don't mean:
Free, as in not in jail or prison.
Free, as in not a slave.
Free, as in being granted legal rights and privileges.
Free, as in not costing any amount of money.
Free, as in available.
Free, as in random or spontaneous.
So what is free to you? And following from that, what is free will?
