RE: Jesus' Mission....
November 15, 2019 at 12:04 pm
(This post was last modified: November 15, 2019 at 12:11 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I have foreknowledge just like that, myself.
You see...no matter what my kids might choose in all of the possible or multiple worlds they're choosing...I actualize what goes on their dinner plate. Wouldn't you know it, they choose what I put on the plate every time.
I think you misread, or perhaps I was unclear. I don't require that a person be able to choose everything, I require that a person be able to choose...at all. That seems like a basic requirement for free will. Is that possibility real? Can you choose some other thing, some thing that a god, or a dad -didn't- select for actualization?
Philosophical libertarians define free will in opposition to determinism, where outcomes are determined by a cause exterior to the will. The actualization of a world, or my putting some specific thing on a dinner plate are both..explicitly, exterior to the will. Foreknowledge, either like that (or..you know...actual foreknowledge) is an even stronger claim than determinism, though. If you, I, bob, a dog, or a god knows that something will happen, it can't fail to happen. If none of us know it, but it can be known, it can't fail to happen. That's fatalism.
A very good guess might require some form of causal determinism, but precognition necessarily requires fatalism.
Maybe free will does make sense, it just doesn't make sense if there are actual precognitives, or if it's possible for there to be precognitives. The things they must know to be properly called as such are things that you cannot fail to do. You do not have that real choice, or the possibility of choice - that we both require, regardless of whether or not you made a selection.
You see...no matter what my kids might choose in all of the possible or multiple worlds they're choosing...I actualize what goes on their dinner plate. Wouldn't you know it, they choose what I put on the plate every time.
I think you misread, or perhaps I was unclear. I don't require that a person be able to choose everything, I require that a person be able to choose...at all. That seems like a basic requirement for free will. Is that possibility real? Can you choose some other thing, some thing that a god, or a dad -didn't- select for actualization?
Philosophical libertarians define free will in opposition to determinism, where outcomes are determined by a cause exterior to the will. The actualization of a world, or my putting some specific thing on a dinner plate are both..explicitly, exterior to the will. Foreknowledge, either like that (or..you know...actual foreknowledge) is an even stronger claim than determinism, though. If you, I, bob, a dog, or a god knows that something will happen, it can't fail to happen. If none of us know it, but it can be known, it can't fail to happen. That's fatalism.
A very good guess might require some form of causal determinism, but precognition necessarily requires fatalism.
Maybe free will does make sense, it just doesn't make sense if there are actual precognitives, or if it's possible for there to be precognitives. The things they must know to be properly called as such are things that you cannot fail to do. You do not have that real choice, or the possibility of choice - that we both require, regardless of whether or not you made a selection.
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