RE: If free will was not real
August 20, 2016 at 10:31 am
(This post was last modified: August 20, 2016 at 10:44 am by The Grand Nudger.)
That it has a nature, does not establish that it is free...and it's patently and demonstrably -incapable- of acting on that nature..whatever it is, free of impediment in the first place. It contains it's own damned impediments and is surrounded by impediment.
-but ignore all of that above. We don't -need- to quibble over any of it to understand each other's positions. If you're comfortable with an algorithmic rhythm being "free" then you must also be comfortable with a pcs algorithms, or a thermostats, as being "free"...hence my criticism that this is a trivial sort of "free"...-not- that the phenomena is trivial, or that the terms referent doesn't exist...etc.
-but ignore all of that above. We don't -need- to quibble over any of it to understand each other's positions. If you're comfortable with an algorithmic rhythm being "free" then you must also be comfortable with a pcs algorithms, or a thermostats, as being "free"...hence my criticism that this is a trivial sort of "free"...-not- that the phenomena is trivial, or that the terms referent doesn't exist...etc.
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