RE: Any Nihilists here?
August 13, 2023 at 10:42 am
(This post was last modified: August 13, 2023 at 10:43 am by GrandizerII.)
(August 13, 2023 at 10:28 am)LinuxGal Wrote:(August 12, 2023 at 9:01 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: The fact that free will can not exist means you don’t have a choice in whether or not believe in free wheel or see moral statements as factual or not.
Since free will relies on the premise that counterfactuals are at least possible in principle, and we don't have epistemic access to counterfactuals, it will always remain an unscientific concept, unless we can build a time machine to find out what we will, in fact, do, and return to attempt to make the counterfactual real.
You don't need to go through all that trouble to have "epistemic access" to counterfactuals. Counterfactuals are right there, in your mind. Unless, of course, you're talking about concrete possible worlds here, and not just abstact?
Also, there are different flavors of "free will".