RE: If free will was not real
August 17, 2016 at 5:13 pm
(This post was last modified: August 17, 2016 at 5:19 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Do you make decisions free of duress, even in your experience? Are there no considerations in your decision making process that all but ensure a particular decision-making outcome? Obviously we can't be talking about every decision (surely you could be tortured into "deciding" anything)...and one might wonder why human decisionmaking is predictable enough to be a multi-billion dollar business (advertising) if it were so robust and resistant to duress. I have serious reservations here that we're not actually discussing phenomenology, but instead...a woeful dearth of introspection regarding a particular phenomena.
If you're offered a kale smoothie, a bowl of strawberries...and a dog turd. Which would you decide to eat, and why?
If you're offered a kale smoothie, a bowl of strawberries...and a dog turd. Which would you decide to eat, and why?
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