RE: Free Will: Fact or Fiction
October 1, 2012 at 3:04 pm
(This post was last modified: October 1, 2012 at 3:12 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Precisely, if -you- the claimant of this "free will" business cannot devise a test that could at least distinguish between the two (free will involved vs no free will involved)....-your- view...as the claimant, has what practical value or meaning?
How could we determine what "decisions" even involve this free will? Do you decide those whom you love or dislike, for example? Are some things within the remit of this will's abilities while others remain outside the walls of the camp? If so, which things, if not....why not? How does this "will" work? Where does it come from? Consciousness? Thats a non-answer, just shifts the question back from one term to another. Personally, I like to think that I make decisions too, that I'm "my own man", but I don't see any reason to be sure that this is so....it's just a pleasant thought.
How could we determine what "decisions" even involve this free will? Do you decide those whom you love or dislike, for example? Are some things within the remit of this will's abilities while others remain outside the walls of the camp? If so, which things, if not....why not? How does this "will" work? Where does it come from? Consciousness? Thats a non-answer, just shifts the question back from one term to another. Personally, I like to think that I make decisions too, that I'm "my own man", but I don't see any reason to be sure that this is so....it's just a pleasant thought.
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