(November 15, 2019 at 12:04 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: 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'm not sure this analogy corresponds to what I'm arguing about. In this situation you're describing, your kids could not possibly have another choice to make. They could only choose to eat what you put on their plates. And this is assuming, of course, that they end up eating what's on the plate.
Quote: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?
I'm assuming, for the sake of argument, that such possibility is real since I'm assuming libertarian free will is somehow possible.
Quote:Philosophical libertarians define free will in opposition to determinism, where outcomes are determined by a cause exterior to the will.
True, but according to many that I've had discussions with over this, they also seem to view free will as a matter of being able to "magically" choose differently if you were to go back in time and start over (though that doesn't necessarily mean they have an infinite range of choices to choose from).