RE: If free will was not real
August 17, 2016 at 5:02 pm
(This post was last modified: August 17, 2016 at 5:03 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 17, 2016 at 4:54 pm)Irrational Wrote:Well, I guess I'll just have to take your word for it. You have free will because you say you have free will. : shrugs :(August 17, 2016 at 4:52 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Can you?
Yes, I can.
(August 17, 2016 at 4:58 pm)Gemini Wrote: I honestly think it's about getting over the specious metaphysics that defined a freely made decision as ex nihilo in the first place. You might call it dog meat, I call the incompatibilist libertarian position magical unicorn meat. It was meaningless to begin with. I'm happy to understand free will as an executive function of the brain, however causally deterministic it is. It's "free" in the sense that matters to persons, which is phenomenological.I'm not sure what that means. It's phenomenologically free? Could you elaborate or rephrase?
(am I misunderstanding?)
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