RE: Is free will real?
December 22, 2014 at 9:25 pm
(This post was last modified: December 22, 2014 at 9:29 pm by bennyboy.)
(December 22, 2014 at 8:48 pm)Rhythm Wrote: You won't find "Ferrarri particles" floating around either-and yet there are Ferrarris.If there are no people to see the Ferrari, but rather a troupe of monkeys, is it still a Ferrari, or even a car? Or is it just a bunch of hard, shiny red stuff? You insist that the Ferrari exists. But it exists AS A FERRARI only to people. Do you think a snake looks at your mom and sees hugs and apple pie? Do you think amoeba look at your life and are jealous of your liberty?
ALL these things are real only as ideas, and all these ideas are based on the context of the human experience-- what it feels like to live a human life. And this "what it's like" very clearly includes the sense that we are free agents, making willful decisions about how to live our lives.
