RE: In your opinion what causes christians to believe in Jesus
May 16, 2025 at 5:35 pm
(This post was last modified: May 16, 2025 at 5:36 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(May 16, 2025 at 5:15 pm)Paleophyte Wrote:(May 16, 2025 at 4:19 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: The tricky bit about the free will debate is that the universe would look exactly the same whether or not free will exists. Let’s say you had eggs for breakfast. How could you possibly know if that was a free choice or if it was a necessary consequence of the universe unraveling in a particular way?
Then why do we have a concept of free will? What function does that serve in a deterministic universe? Fodder for endless and pointless debate? Why not a pervading sense of "I'm an automaton and proud of it!"?
Well, I think the point is that, at least hypothetically, that may be exactly what we're doing..we just don't know that how we perceive things is how bioautomata would. So, conceptually, you could ask those questions (or any other) and their response - yes, that's something bioautomata does. Why do we have pervading senses? For model based control.
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