Quote:Not quite. If I built a robot that goes on to build another robot, then I am not the creator of the second robot. Or, in simple terms, if I write a program to solve mathematical equations and it solves a particular equation, then I am not the one who solves it.
Of course you are, in both cases. If you hadn't built the first robot, the second one would not exist. If you hadn't written the programme, then the equation in question would remain unsolved. In either case, it may help to think of youself as a sort of Aristotelean 'prime mover
Quote:Unconstrained by what, exactly?
By anything. Whether you are chained to a wall, confined to a wheelchair, or have your decisions pre-planned for you, you are not a free agent, in the sense that you cannot act freely.
Quote:And it remains debatable if god did create human actions.
No argument. But it creates a tremendous headache for those theistic structures who claim that God created everything.
Quote:AFAIK, they do admit it. As matter of fact, that is the basis of their whole theology.
Really? You can point to an Abrahamic theism which makes the claim that God created some things and not others?
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