RE: If free will was not real
August 20, 2016 at 12:32 pm
(This post was last modified: August 20, 2016 at 12:37 pm by Gemini.)
(August 20, 2016 at 12:21 pm)RozKek Wrote:(August 20, 2016 at 11:49 am)Gemini Wrote: You know what I'm gonna say, but I'll say it anyway.
My will is free if it isn't under coercion from other agents. And the deterministic causal process which constitute my will don't qualify as other agents.
And that cake was good. Soooo good. Mmmmm.
Why does it have to be coercion from an agent and why do you exclude determinism? If I define determinism as an agent, does it strip the free from your will?
Because that's the legal definition of coercion--it's just stipulated as being made by an agent.
If you define all deterministic causal processes as agents, then we need a new word to describe organisms that interact with their environments via complex information processing systems, with the ability to prevision the outcomes of multiple different courses of action and select between them based on which outcome best supports the values within their motivational framework.
A Gemma is forever.
