RE: How Free Will and Omniscience Works
September 3, 2012 at 5:57 pm
(This post was last modified: September 3, 2012 at 5:58 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
We could still be part of the collection of future events (though to an omnsicient creature the words future, present, and past probably wouldn't mean what they do to us). Still though, so long as our actions and "choices" are known before they occur (before being troubling in an indeterminate system, but remember, I'm not talking about indeterminate time, only indeterminate cause), they can't really be called choices, at least not the way we use the word.
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