(May 26, 2015 at 12:14 pm)Aroura Wrote: So...as I thought though, Libertarian free-will has few votes, and no one who voted for that posted in the thread. I'd like to know though, if the people are honest enough to step forward, if both of those votes so far were made by theists or deists or who?
I'm one and almost didn't select for reasons Whateverist mentioned; I grow tired of having to explain that libertarian free will does not mean anything goes. For a time I considered compatibilism, but have concluded that it's still too deterministic for my tastes. One problem with determinism is that one must ignore where will does play a roll in our actions. People are too quick to point to a very limited experiment showing how our subconscious minds work and then paint the entire spectrum of our conscious existence with its conclusion.
Another aspect of determinism that I don't accept is the assertion that events can be predicted if everything were known at the most basic level; thereby, ignoring the concept of emergence.
Accepting that all our reasons for all our actions are nothing more than post hoc rationalizations seems a bit absurd.
