RE: If free will was not real
August 17, 2016 at 5:20 pm
(This post was last modified: August 17, 2016 at 5:21 pm by Gemini.)
(August 17, 2016 at 5:13 pm)Rhythm Wrote: 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?
Absolutely there are considerations that ensure a particular outcome in my decision-making. But when the considerations are facts about my own psychology, I don't experience them as duress. Yes, my decisions were causally determined, but I'm happy to interpret these decisions as mine. It was my own past experiences, for instance, that led me to endorse my husband's decision to listen to metal on our date today. I made that decision free from duress, but not free from the considerations of a lifetime of experience in a causally deterministic physical regime. I care about the former, and not about the latter. And that's the way it should be, sans theistic sophistry.
A Gemma is forever.
