WLC free will and omniscience
April 4, 2014 at 12:01 pm
(This post was last modified: April 4, 2014 at 12:14 pm by Rampant.A.I..)
(April 3, 2014 at 2:50 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(April 3, 2014 at 2:20 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Yes. BECAUSE God is omniscient. You see what you did there? You concluded that humans are lacking free will from the perspective of God. From the human perspective, our freedoms to act are not restricted.
From this human's perspective, you're conflating free will with the illusion of free will, fr0d0.
Damn, thank you. I was getting tired of this "the facts change based on perspective" presumption he's using.
(April 3, 2014 at 3:42 pm)fr0d0 Wrote:(April 3, 2014 at 2:50 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: From this human's perspective, you're conflating free will with the illusion of free will, fr0d0.
How so? I hold that there is no free will, but there is free agency.
Because you're flipping back and forth between terms when it suits your argument, as a semantic game, without defining "free agent," which by definition:
Quote:free a·gent
noun
noun: free agent; plural noun: free agents
1.
a person who does not have any commitments that restrict their actions.
a sports player who is not bound by a contract and so is eligible to join any team.
Is equivalent to Free Will:
Quote:free will
noun
1.
the power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate; the ability to act at one's own discretion.
synonyms: self-determination, freedom of choice, autonomy, liberty, independence
If free will doesn't exist from a possible perspective, what we have is the illusion of free will.
"From my perspective, the earth is flat, but from an astronaut's perspective the earth is round" is a statement of illusion caused by perspective. It does not mean the earth is actually flat unless you're an astronaut.
