RE: If free will was not real
August 20, 2016 at 3:44 am
(This post was last modified: August 20, 2016 at 3:50 am by bennyboy.)
Whatever I do is deterministic, right? Fine, so I will enjoy the illusion I'm choosing to do interesting, exciting, and profitable things, and I will enjoy the illusion that I'm not hiding under the covers because "fuck it, free will is an illusion anyway." Isn't that cool? Whatever I choose, I was predetermined to choose it-- so I will choose whatever I want, and while I'm sipping my iced tea in the Bahamas, you guys can tell me that my choice to go there was only trivially free. But I'll bet my satisfaction in watching pretty girls frolic on the beach will be infinitely more satisfying than the satisfaction of thinking your philosophical position is more than words on a screen.
And that's the paradox of the no-free-will position. We still get to ACT as though we have free will. And so long as my fakery ends up with me enjoying myself, I couldn't care less what words people will / won't use qualitatively to describe my decisions. I'll just keep on ignorantly calling it "free will," sipping that iced tea, and re-focusing those binoculars.
And that's the paradox of the no-free-will position. We still get to ACT as though we have free will. And so long as my fakery ends up with me enjoying myself, I couldn't care less what words people will / won't use qualitatively to describe my decisions. I'll just keep on ignorantly calling it "free will," sipping that iced tea, and re-focusing those binoculars.
