RE: Do you believe in free will?
August 3, 2024 at 11:05 am
(This post was last modified: August 3, 2024 at 12:18 pm by Disagreeable.)
(August 3, 2024 at 11:02 am)emjay Wrote: Generally I don't think it's that useful to talk about because it means different things to different people, what they consider the salient points are also often different, and it's very easy to conflate ideas within this space.
Why do you think that "means different things to different people" equates to "not worth talking about"?
Quote:All that said though, FWIW my own take, and the salient points for me, are that the anything my brain does follows the laws of physics and is therefore determined, and thus not 'free', but at the same time, my lived experience, illusion though it may be, is of the freedom to make choices... the freedom to weigh up options etc.
Sounds like compatabilism.
Quote: In that sense I'm free, but given that ultimately it is my brain weighing up these options, deterministically, then ultimately no, I'm not free. But that is just my own 2c.
Again, sounds like compatablism.
Schopenhauer Wrote:The intellect has become free, and in this state it does not even know or understand any other interest than that of truth.
Epicurus Wrote:The greatest reward of righteousness is peace of mind.
Epicurus Wrote:Don't fear god,
Don't worry about death;
What is good is easy to get,
What is terrible is easy to endure
