(August 20, 2016 at 8:18 am)Rhythm Wrote: You make choices regardless of whether or not you have free will. I;m not sure what illusion is supposed to be involved in hiding under the covers. It;s not a matter of what is or isn.t cool. Lacking free will is not being, therefore, predetermined...and it's -you- and others who tell -me- that the choice is trivially free.The ability to form intent and act on it without external obstruction or compulsion can be called "trivial," but I'm pretty sure if this privilege were taken away from you, you'd decide that wasn't the right word after all.
Quote:It's not a paradox to say that you don't care whether or not you're right or wrong about this...it's just indifference. I don;t know that we do act like we have free will (or what that would even look like) - do you?
The paradox is that those who claim we don't have free will are easily seen exercising their free will 24/7. You, for example, almost certainly exercised it in choosing to respond to my posts in this thread.