RE: Free will/evil/punishment
June 15, 2015 at 10:31 am
(This post was last modified: June 15, 2015 at 10:41 am by The Grand Nudger.)
We're sure that our "freely willing" shit isn't one of our animal instincts? If being free of emotion completely were the way to exercizing will....how effective a force/cause would will be in human beings?
@Nestor, you asserted that the person in the scenario acted freely, you did not demonstrate it. Compliance with the will doesn't tell us that our decisions are freely made -regardless- of whether or not will is automated..or some-something is at the wheel. That we make considerations of options available is unimpressive. So does a comparator, and nothing need be at that wheel either. I don't know, personally, whether we have one of these free will things - but neither of those two things would imply or demonstrate that whatever will we have is free, or that a course of action is freely taken.
@Nestor, you asserted that the person in the scenario acted freely, you did not demonstrate it. Compliance with the will doesn't tell us that our decisions are freely made -regardless- of whether or not will is automated..or some-something is at the wheel. That we make considerations of options available is unimpressive. So does a comparator, and nothing need be at that wheel either. I don't know, personally, whether we have one of these free will things - but neither of those two things would imply or demonstrate that whatever will we have is free, or that a course of action is freely taken.
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