RE: "Free Will" Belief/Disbelief Poll
October 5, 2010 at 7:49 am
(This post was last modified: October 5, 2010 at 8:00 am by Edwardo Piet.)
Physical freedom exists but that's it. My will is not free. My will is what drives me. I am only free in the sense a car driven by an unfree robot is free..... I am physically free. A bird has freedom in the sense it has the ability or "freedom" to fly. But it are we are both not free in the sense that what actually drives us, our wills, aren't free.
A man driving unconstrained by worries in the wilderness, driving offtrack and whereever he so wishes may be "free" in that sense. But he can't will what he wishes. The question can always be asked "What's driving the driver?" if that question is not bothered to be asked, we top at a dead end acting as if we are self-causing, which is ridiculous.
Prediction if accurate prediction by definition can't be predicted wrongly.
A man driving unconstrained by worries in the wilderness, driving offtrack and whereever he so wishes may be "free" in that sense. But he can't will what he wishes. The question can always be asked "What's driving the driver?" if that question is not bothered to be asked, we top at a dead end acting as if we are self-causing, which is ridiculous.
Prediction if accurate prediction by definition can't be predicted wrongly.
