(August 20, 2016 at 8:00 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: A man walks into an ice cream parlor. He chooses between chocolate and vanilla ice cream. He chooses chocolate. Later, as he's eating the chocolate ice cream, he says to himself, "I could have had vanilla." Is that a true statement under determinism? No it is not, assuming the brain to be a deterministic thinking machine. The phenomenology of free will is a lie. He could not have chosen vanilla in that actual world, despite what might occur in possible worlds. So are we talking about possible worlds when we refer to the experience of choice? Or are we talking incorrectly about the actual world?
You clearly used the terminology that "he chooses".
Clearly, he chose one over the other.
That is free will.
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