(October 10, 2023 at 9:20 pm)LinuxGal Wrote:That is interesting.(October 10, 2023 at 9:15 pm)ShinyCrystals Wrote: Well, I do agree that there is no free will. Anyhow, aside from that, exactly, LinuxGal!
Seriously, there are so many factors that limit choice to the point of choice not being free. I do see that infinite regression thing as interesting, though. You can explain that, and man doing what he wills but can't will what he wills, if you'd like.
Coders run across it all the time. An efficient way to build a function is to make it recursive. While it's running it calls itself, and that second instance calls itself, and so on, until a certain condition is met and the whole chain stops. But the "will" function has no exit criteria. You can never will what you will.
You know, I think this kind of goes with the fundamental laws of the universe and everything operating independently from a supreme being like god, if kind of. When I was reminded of free will not being a thing when I first came to this forum, I accepted that, because it made so much sense, and I thought it being an illusion as some sites I saw from long ago was potentially valid, as people seem to cling on to things like that of free will as a mental need. Anyway, I also learned the universe and everything in it; including the human mind; was mainly deterministic. The fundamental laws of the universe do determine how things work, and logically, everything that exists affects one another in some way, which should limit free will. Not to a lesser degree, but to nothing, as it truly does not exist. I think how everything works; how they affect one another; independently from a god, of course; makes free will nonexistent.
But maybe free will will probably does not need to exist, just like a supreme being like god does not need to exist for the reasons I described.
