RE: Do you believe in free will?
March 14, 2012 at 11:20 am
(This post was last modified: March 14, 2012 at 11:27 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Then how have you escaped determinism, precisely, as I've already asked. How have you even dented it? You seem to be entrenching yourself within it. You have exactly as much free will as a worm, just a more "complicated" amount of it, capable of expressing a larger number of deterministic things. If this is simply a case of free will being all the things we can't predict due to complexity, what happens if we learn to predict this or that thing. Does free will vanish in a puff of disappointment, and if it exists, just how would it vanish? In with a bang, out with a whimper?
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