RE: Do you believe in free will?
March 21, 2012 at 7:05 pm
(This post was last modified: March 21, 2012 at 7:10 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The inclination towards determinism is one of evidence. Has nothing to do with us trying to understand ourselves as anything. It's just that everywhere we look, we see it. Even in the whole QM bit that people like to trot out as an argument against hard determinism. It's an inclination towards expressing caution at viewing ourselves as the exception to the rule, since evidence has shown us that this is also a mistake.
We are exceedignly difficult to predict, sometime we have trouble predicting what we ourselves might do. This was similarly true of the weather once (and to some extent still is). Now, clouds and people are different in many ways, but it would be carelessness not to even allow that we may be making a similar mistake for similar reasons.
We are exceedignly difficult to predict, sometime we have trouble predicting what we ourselves might do. This was similarly true of the weather once (and to some extent still is). Now, clouds and people are different in many ways, but it would be carelessness not to even allow that we may be making a similar mistake for similar reasons.
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