RE: If free will was not real
August 17, 2016 at 5:26 pm
(This post was last modified: August 17, 2016 at 5:27 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 17, 2016 at 5:20 pm)Gemini Wrote: 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.That sounds like a semantic switch rather than a qualitative objection. Do you -not- experience the duress of present financial status when deciding which car to buy?
Quote:Yes, my decisions were causally determined, but I'm happy to interpret these decisions as mine.-and I'm happy to give them to you as yours, I'm wondering about the sense in which they are free...not their ownership.
Quote: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,You didn't really like the guy and want to participate in what he likes, you didn't feel compelled to share in your spouses experience? That's not duress, in context? Do you like metal?
Quote: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.So, again..its dog...but you prefer to call it taco meat. It doesn't sound, to me, like duress means anything in particular. It's just a skyhook.
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