(April 14, 2015 at 1:49 pm)Aoi Magi Wrote: The existence of free-will matters only within the scope of the decision. If everything is predetermined, then our logical and illogical actions are also predetermined and trying to change them is futile at best. Thus the concept of freewill actually aids us in making decisions by at least providing an illusion of choices.
I make an app that tells me what I should wear. Tomorrow it's going to rain, so it'll tell me to wear galoshes.
That conclusion is 'predetermined', but if I don't run the app, I won't clean my galoshes in preparation for tomorrow, and all the kids will pick on me.
I believe analyzing the question of free will is running the app. Knowing that I have no say in the conclusions I'm drawing doesn't change the fact that my subconscious may draw new "better" conclusions that lead to different "better" behavior. And if it does, then it can output that information so that others will input it, and possibly adapt the 'better' behavior.
The carrot possibly being a positive stimuli associated with these things happening.
