RE: A thing about religious (and other) people and the illusion of free will
November 11, 2023 at 12:01 pm
(November 11, 2023 at 11:56 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Yeah, I mean, IDK. Maybe we wouldn't have destroyed ourselves but it would probably not be all that great for a hypersocial species to be genuinely individual in their interests. In what they will. It could have made organizing large numbers of us more difficult. That we indoctrinate our societies probably shows that whatever latent individuality or freedom escapes our upbringing we hope to trample down with proper education.
A world of truly free wills might be ungovernable, and, in being so, could not provide the benefits that our governable world has.
Yeah, perhaps the last sentence you were saying in your post was what I was trying to say when I said the "destroying ourselves" part. I would also like to point out that in a truly free will word, governments cannot really exist. There would be no point in such a concept as a government. I also think people would not be so responsible with free will without proper education and begin raised well. With that, as well as other things I have said, I do not think free will is something that can really exist, not even in the way us humans imagine it to be.
