RE: If free will was not real
August 20, 2016 at 11:32 am
(This post was last modified: August 20, 2016 at 11:35 am by The Grand Nudger.)
@BB
I don't know, it's not for me to describe, I'm only leaving the door open for those who have that description and hold that position.
As to the second question, no...and that's ignoring the fact that you can't actually establish that you even -do- that....and have assumed what you hope to establish in the argument for it.
If your mind is an algorithm (or a collection of them), then it's intent, it's actions..even what it wants...are the products of mathematic calculations played out on a suitable substrate. They are no more or less "free"..again, than a thermostat. I don't know that our will -is- such a thing, but since it could be, and would present identical observations....it needs to be excluded. Or not...oif you could just bring yourself to be comfortable with the implications and conclusions that are inescapeably arrived at by your description of a free will...and give it to the thermostat, then you wouldn't have an issue. I still wouldn't be impressed.....but I'd have no room to criticize the proposition on it's own terms.
I don't know, it's not for me to describe, I'm only leaving the door open for those who have that description and hold that position.
As to the second question, no...and that's ignoring the fact that you can't actually establish that you even -do- that....and have assumed what you hope to establish in the argument for it.
If your mind is an algorithm (or a collection of them), then it's intent, it's actions..even what it wants...are the products of mathematic calculations played out on a suitable substrate. They are no more or less "free"..again, than a thermostat. I don't know that our will -is- such a thing, but since it could be, and would present identical observations....it needs to be excluded. Or not...oif you could just bring yourself to be comfortable with the implications and conclusions that are inescapeably arrived at by your description of a free will...and give it to the thermostat, then you wouldn't have an issue. I still wouldn't be impressed.....but I'd have no room to criticize the proposition on it's own terms.
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