RE: Do you believe in free will?
March 11, 2012 at 11:49 am
(This post was last modified: March 11, 2012 at 11:50 am by Whateverist.)
(March 10, 2012 at 7:50 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Sincere question to all...do you consider free will necessary for rational thought? If your thinking must follow a pre-determined course does it even matter how beliefs and conclusions are reached?
Absolutely. I can never understand why some people seem to think their thoughts do not count as free will. If you are free to realize just how deterministic the world and everything in it including yourself must be, then you must believe you have some degree of free will. If you realize your thoughts are just as determined, why bother to express them?
If I am asked to believe that you have some awareness that is free and but that doesn't count toward free will, then there really is no reason to continue the conversation. It's just too sad to realize you're trapped in there, knowing better, but constrained to watch the words flow out your mouth. Good luck.