(January 3, 2015 at 10:50 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote:People experience free will when they can conceive and consciously deliberate over potential courses of action and select among those choices apart from internal or external compulsion. One must presuppose physical causal closure to conclude that all choices are compelled.(January 3, 2015 at 7:30 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: What makes you believe that the experience of making a free choice is a trick, i.e. 'something else' and not what it appears to be?What does it appear to be? Does color appear to be wavelengths of light striking the retina, causing a factory of moleculer structures into action that transmit information to the brain that then fixes an image of an object with the property of color? Why should a scientifically literate interpretation of human thought and behavior be any less revelatory with regards to the actual world and our experience of it?
Your color example assumes that the subjective of experience of color is identical to and reducible to some set of physical operations. Since one does not share all the qualities of the other (Law of Identity) the example fails.
