RE: Oh no not another free will thread.
April 23, 2018 at 9:38 am
(This post was last modified: April 23, 2018 at 9:45 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(April 23, 2018 at 8:46 am)bennyboy Wrote:(April 23, 2018 at 8:19 am)Khemikal Wrote: By that definition, conveyor sorters also have free will. I'm not saying it's a bad description of what free will is (as opposed to what we thought it was)...only noting it's inclusivity.
Conveyor's don't have a self to express.
You don't think that the selections a conveyor sorter makes are the truest expression of whatever the conveyor sorter is? It;s also a causal chokepoint, and whatever it selects is whatever it always would have - that's it's nature as whatever sort of conveyor sorter it may be. Isn't it as free as you are, if those are the reasons that you are free, and it is also in that same position?
Put another way, some other thing x can satisfy every criteria you employ to proclaim your free will..and even be subject to identical limitations in that employment (even limitations of temporal certainty)...but it's only a free will when your "self" is doing it?
It was beautifully inclusive a moment ago...but now it looks like common case of exclusionary special pleading.
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