RE: A thing about religious (and other) people and the illusion of free will
November 12, 2023 at 12:54 pm
(This post was last modified: November 12, 2023 at 12:55 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Your central question being whether or how accurately our internal or subjective experiences align to an external or objective reality - yeah, that's a tough one. I don't know that anyone has ever had the answer to that. Adding things like the natural/supernatural dichotomy and god just makes it even more ambiguous and expansive. We can conceive of free wills as natural or supernatural, as existing in a world with gods or as not existing because of a world with gods. Of an objective reality that contains subjectively free or objectively free wills and of an objective world that does not. Of worlds where things believe they have free wills and things do not - and those things don't necessarily have to align to the fact of the matter.
I think that the heightened protectionism around ideas like free will could be (in part) an expression of our sense of tragedy in the lattermost type of world. Where beings that possess agency as a fact genuinely believe they do not.
I think that the heightened protectionism around ideas like free will could be (in part) an expression of our sense of tragedy in the lattermost type of world. Where beings that possess agency as a fact genuinely believe they do not.
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