RE: Oh no not another free will thread.
April 23, 2018 at 11:39 am
(This post was last modified: April 23, 2018 at 11:45 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(April 23, 2018 at 11:22 am)possibletarian Wrote: I think someone knowing the future argument does not relate either way to free will, for or against.
The two should be separated.
Why?
It certainly relates to the reality of their "choice" between a and b. Obviously, it wouldn't make you feel like you had less of a choice or no choice..but that's an artifact of personal ignorance of the future and the process by which we do and will choose a. From a privileged temporal position of observation, it could be seen that you are not free in that situation.
Any notion of free will has to address both whether and how free will is or can be exerted in the case of a certain inevitability. It would be easy, I suppose...to say that those certain inevitabilities aren't where free will can be exerted, regardless of how...but when the certain inevitability is the outcome of a choice.........?
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