RE: Is free will real?
December 26, 2014 at 10:26 pm
(This post was last modified: December 26, 2014 at 10:26 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(December 26, 2014 at 9:15 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Adding more doubt to non-free-will experiences serves well to justify my stance that nothing we experience is intrinsically more real than free will.Meh, it serves our interests to apply scrutiny to what we experience, but this "free will or nothing" business is an immense, and I mean immense oversimplification, don't you think? I'm shooting for more of a "not free will, but something else that achieves the effect we refer to when we say -free will-....and also other stuff as well".
Quote:And over the past few days, as we've discussed free will, I can say that viewing it as deterministic, indeterministic, or illusory has not affected my snack-aisle experience of freely choosing what I'm going to buy, or of freely choosing my method of hiding said purchase from my wife.I know right, it's almost as if your thoughts aren't generating reality and what might be true about your thoughts might not be true about reality.
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