(December 18, 2016 at 4:16 pm)RozKek Wrote:(December 18, 2016 at 4:05 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: So; what is the difference if you go through door A and there is no envelope with the prediction? What does it mean that you do not have freedom in this sense?
I could will to fly like a bird, but I'm not free to do so.
The envelope was an analogy. If what you will do is already known (doesn't matter by who or what) then you have no free will because your will is already determined. That simple. In this case the envelope knows your will, in your case the very God you believe in knows your will.
Something cannot be known if it isn't determined, in this context.
If I may, I think perhaps a slightly more apt analogy might be the letter that Marty left in Doc Brown's pocket in BttF, warning him of his fate unless he takes action to prevent it. It's why Doc was so determined not to know - his free will was compromised.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
