RE: What is wrong with FW?
August 2, 2018 at 3:35 pm
(This post was last modified: August 2, 2018 at 3:41 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
If he had no other choice..whether it was arrived at rationally or otherwise..there was no free will involved...so it seems like a strange diversion, lol.
@Rob...IDK that I;d even call it a pragmatic self delusion..does anyone actually experience it, in any sense. Do we ever find ourselves in a situation where our brain is actually reporting to us that it has just made the proverbial decision ex nihilo? I ask because I..personally, can't think of any report like that. Theres a narrative of my having chosen this or that..sometimes the impetus of the decision is known..sometimes not...but never anything like a flashing mental neon sign saying "free will experienced here!!".
It may be that the subject of free will is bound up more in the way we speak about our agency in relation to other things/and the environment...and those gaps in our cognitive self surveillance. More that... than any thing out there in the world doing things to be experienced for a fact of a matter -or- a delusion.
@Rob...IDK that I;d even call it a pragmatic self delusion..does anyone actually experience it, in any sense. Do we ever find ourselves in a situation where our brain is actually reporting to us that it has just made the proverbial decision ex nihilo? I ask because I..personally, can't think of any report like that. Theres a narrative of my having chosen this or that..sometimes the impetus of the decision is known..sometimes not...but never anything like a flashing mental neon sign saying "free will experienced here!!".
It may be that the subject of free will is bound up more in the way we speak about our agency in relation to other things/and the environment...and those gaps in our cognitive self surveillance. More that... than any thing out there in the world doing things to be experienced for a fact of a matter -or- a delusion.
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