RE: Implications of not having free will
January 9, 2015 at 5:46 pm
(This post was last modified: January 9, 2015 at 5:55 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(January 7, 2015 at 7:59 pm)Spacedog Wrote: .
Quote:But before I go on about that, first a question: how do you define free will, I'm not sure I know what the word means
The ability to, at a single point in time, choose between more than one action.
How could you possibly determine whether you genuinely have this ability, or have only an ex post illusion of having had this ability? Without the ability to go rewind time, You can never test whether you really were capable of making a decision different from that which you imgined you freely chose from different options of your own will.
When you mention quantum flucturation, it seem to me you are also confusion unpredicatble will with free will. Just because it is impossible to predict a will, how does that make it free? You are still bound to make a decision, unpredictable as it might be, based on nothing you could influence. You still did not chose your decision. It was chosen, unpredictably by you or anyone else, for you.
