RE: What do we do while deciding if free will exists?
April 19, 2015 at 1:53 pm
(This post was last modified: April 19, 2015 at 1:55 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(April 18, 2015 at 9:41 pm)bennyboy Wrote: I'm arguing that most of what it is like to be human is not less real than free will. If free will is nothing, so is beauty. So is goodness. So are honor, morality, etc.Yeah..yeah...and I've commented on the silliness of immediately falling to such statements before. I don't think that I have to take your free will to have any of that -in fact I know that I don't.....but if I did..oh well, so what if they all were nothing?
I'm afraid that if this "free will or you can't have x" is the best free will has going for it...it's in a pretty sorry state. I could probably replace "free will" with some other thing and you'd be able to recognize all of the ways to rip that statement to shreds without any help from me. Here's a hint....my substitute is invisible and begins with a "g".
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