(November 24, 2021 at 2:18 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:(November 24, 2021 at 4:22 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: If free will exists, I'm not sure how we could prove it. I mean, when I'm thinking about what to cook for supper and we wind up having haddock, it certainly feels as though it was a freely made decision. On the other hand, it's not implausible that the concatenation of every event, major and minor, since the instantiation of the universe, made haddock for supper on 24 November 2021 an immutable, unavoidable event.
It appears that the only possible way to prove or disprove free will would to be observe actions from an outside frame of reference. Good luck with that.
Boru
I think there is a general confusion between unpredictable Will and free will. Most argument for existence of free will seem to boils down to the formulation of Will may involve processes whose outcome can not even in theory to predicted a priori.
But how does that make the resulting will free?
It doesn’t. We have no way to tell if any event - from tying a shoelace to dropping atomic bombs - is a willed event or a pre-determined one.
Boru
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