(April 22, 2018 at 9:15 pm)Lutrinae Wrote: Knowing the actual future still does not eradicate free will.Right, I get that you disagree, you already stated that. I was explaining why people say that. You say that you have a choice, they note that you can choose no other.
Just because the being knows that you will choose the blue shirt over the green shirt does not mean there still wasn't a choice and that you still did not have the free will to choose between the two colored shirts.
Quote:A true absence of free will is an absence of choice.I don't think that's true. Free will and choice are not synonyms, imo.
Quote:The being did not alter the future in any way to make you choose one colored shirt over another; rather, the being simply knew which colored shirt you would choose.It doesn't need to alter anything, or make you choose one shirt over another. It only needs to know what you will do in order for you to be able to do no other, choose no other.
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