RE: Do you believe in free will?
March 22, 2012 at 2:21 pm
(This post was last modified: March 22, 2012 at 2:22 pm by Whateverist.)
(March 21, 2012 at 10:43 am)NoMoreFaith Wrote:(March 21, 2012 at 10:35 am)whateverist Wrote: What is really odd about this and the whole inclination toward determinism is the idea of creatures such as our selves purposefully trying to understand ourselves as simplistically mechanistic.
I find it more interesting that we commit conceptual and linguistic backflips in order to show that we are more than that.
Well no one works at arguing that we're more than a simple machine until someone comes along and implants the notion that we are. We all start off life naively believing we are critters with choices to make until they pick up a philosophy book and become convinced that those choices have been making us all along. If you never buy in to the determinism vortex you tend not to work so hard at getting back out. I'm not a very determined spokesperson for free willing because it seems so silly to me. As far as I'm concerned you are free to imagine you a simple machine if that be your will. I'm just going to smell these flowers over here. Is that my idea, the flower's idea, by environment's idea? I don't really care.