RE: Is free will real?
December 20, 2014 at 8:37 am
(This post was last modified: December 20, 2014 at 8:43 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(December 20, 2014 at 1:24 am)MysticKnight Wrote: Without free-will, there is no such thing as praise. Without free-will, you can't even thank your parents.I don't think free will is a factor in this praise and thanks business regardless of whether or not it exists. I see no requirement, and if we didn't have free will we are, at least, still observably praising and thanking each other (that much we know, eh?).
-as an aside....I have no idea what this free will business accomplishes, what it's supposed to do or what we think it's doing, or how it's accomplished. Every time someone describes free will to me it takes all of 30 seconds to imagine a machine that's capable of -precisely the same effect-. For example, the above needs a few seven segment displays to scroll simple praising and thanking text.....and that's about it.
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