(February 15, 2017 at 12:18 pm)Aroura Wrote: My world view wouldn't unravel if I thought free-will was real, as I have nothing dependent on it.[1] If there were evidence of it (and there are plenty of arguments against mind/brain duality, such as the fact the the mind is ALWAYS damaged if the brain is damaged, therefore there is no duality [2]), I would accept it [3]. It would really change nothing for me, because it would still be explained by evidence. I have no other major beliefs that are dependent on it. I spent the majority of my life thinking free will is real, after all. I'm not really different now, except I accept this very difficult truth.
Unlike some others, who actually have their entire faith in God apparently hanging in the balance of a single concept. Again project much? lol. But eve tough your current argument for God rests on the notion of free-will, I honestly don't think it would unravel your worldviews, either. I suppose you would fit God into your new paradigm, because that is what people do. To suggest that you think my whole worldview would "unravel" with one idea changed suggests you have very little understanding of how the human mind actually works. [4]
1. I think if your worldview was Naturalism it would. For there to be real free will, the mind, something immaterial, would have causal effect on the world and the notion of determinism undermined. I have not heard of an argument that preserves both Free Will and Naturalism. Feel free...
2. My third reason addresses the brain damage objection: Lastly, while there is a causal dependency of the mind events on the brain events, you cannot confuse correlation with identity. It does not follow that if two events are correlated, that they are identical.
3. I presented 3 reason that you have not addressed specifically. Why is this not evidence that for mind/body duality?
4. A worldview is measured on how well it assimilates reality into a coherent framework. I think mine does that better than yours for a lot of reasons. This one happens to be the topic of this thread. If you are okay with a worldview that fails to address everything, that is your business.
