RE: "Free Will" Belief/Disbelief Poll
October 5, 2010 at 6:52 am
(This post was last modified: October 5, 2010 at 6:58 am by Edwardo Piet.)
(October 4, 2010 at 12:11 pm)Watson Wrote: If there is no such thing as free will, then all action and reaction can be, to soem extent, predicted. Wouldn't this suggest that if we have suitable means of predicting a person's actions before they happen, we are obligated to prevent those actions, if they are a crime in the eyes of the law?
Things can already be predicted, it is already known, in this world even if this is an indeterministic one. But not 100% otherwise how would it be indeterministic? For things to be 100% predictable it would require a determinsitic world. And I am a hard incompatiblist not a hard determinist.
I don't deny determinism though. I don't know if ultimately, when it comes down to it, the quantum world is really deterministic. I don't know either way.... I don't commit belief to determinism or indeterminism I just see 'free will' as impossible either way.
And furthermore, what if the Police are determined to fail at preventing the criminal from committing his crime?
