RE: Determinism, Free Will and Paradox
January 18, 2015 at 8:49 pm
(This post was last modified: January 18, 2015 at 9:06 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I've used this one before. When we watch a magician "pull a rabbit out of a hat" we understand that it's not actually happening the way we see it. That it's an "illusion". To call it such does not imply that the magician isn't doing anything, or that the magician and the rabbit, in fact, aren't even there.
Suggesting that "free will" -as the unmoved mover of mind- is an illusion is to suggest something entirely similar. That what we experience might not be an accurate representation of the reality of whats happening. Not, that we're having an experience -about nothing-. It's suggesting that "free will" is potentially misleading terminology (with tremendous baggage) regarding a subject for which we have limited onboard means of perception, not that the the subject itself is an empty set. Something's happening regardless of whether or not we have the description right, wouldn't you agree? The magician and the rabbit and the hat exist, even if the magician isn't actually pulling a rabbit out of the hat.
Suggesting that "free will" -as the unmoved mover of mind- is an illusion is to suggest something entirely similar. That what we experience might not be an accurate representation of the reality of whats happening. Not, that we're having an experience -about nothing-. It's suggesting that "free will" is potentially misleading terminology (with tremendous baggage) regarding a subject for which we have limited onboard means of perception, not that the the subject itself is an empty set. Something's happening regardless of whether or not we have the description right, wouldn't you agree? The magician and the rabbit and the hat exist, even if the magician isn't actually pulling a rabbit out of the hat.
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