RE: "Free Will" Belief/Disbelief Poll
October 4, 2010 at 4:33 am
(This post was last modified: October 8, 2010 at 9:55 am by Edwardo Piet.)
And furthermore I don't see why we should associate our consciousness with free choice anyway. Since when does "consciousnesss"= freedom? If a rock was conscious would it suddenly have free will? What if it then also grew legs and could move around as well as being "conscious"... then would it have free will? Conscious will and "free will" are different things as far as I'm concerned.
But yes, if we're making decisions before we're even aware of them, that makes free will not only absurd and magical but also impossible
Either the laws of physics are probabilistic or deterministic. If they're probabilistic, since we are part of nature and we don't have a supernatural will, I don't see why us being conscious or intelligent would make any difference to that matter... at all. It sure makes us more likely to think we have free will
But yes, if we're making decisions before we're even aware of them, that makes free will not only absurd and magical but also impossible
Either the laws of physics are probabilistic or deterministic. If they're probabilistic, since we are part of nature and we don't have a supernatural will, I don't see why us being conscious or intelligent would make any difference to that matter... at all. It sure makes us more likely to think we have free will
