RE: Is free will real?
December 24, 2014 at 9:21 pm
(This post was last modified: December 24, 2014 at 9:22 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(December 24, 2014 at 7:56 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Okay, and this is where I've been trying to go: the standard of reality is in all cases simply that something feels real to you. EVEN THOUGH we know that we do not experience Mom or a Ferrari as those things really exist in a purely scientific sense, we consider them perfectly real-- indisputably real, really.I don't think that would make a very good standard for reality - as any of my posts can attest to. What "feels real" and what "is real" are not always the same thing. That wouldn't mean that nothing was happening - just that we were mistaken about what was happening. Still very unfamiliar language for me...as I happen to think that we do what we do wonderfully , even our flaws turn to our benefit more often than not.
Quote:We seem to be engaged in special pleading with regard to free will-- only IT can be said to exist if it represents the mechanism of the physical universe as we know it, right down to the functions of QM particles.Not sure if I'm reading this right - but, I think I'd agree.
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