The Problem of Imperfect Revelation: Your Thoughts?

[bennyboy]

Being able to have done differently than you did?

That's pure illusory. At every instance of choice, people do the exact thing that they're conditioned to do, and they cannot act in a manner that is inconsistent with their nature or beyond their ability to conceive. They can condition themselves to do different things in the future, but the conditioning which leads to them is what determines them. All of our choices are determined. The retrospective recognition of alternatives creates the illusion of freedom, but this is after a decision is made. To say you could have chose differently, is to say you could have lived in a different universe. A puppet is not free, even if it likes its strings.

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Furthermore, can anyone give an example of a time where they chose differently than they did? Since they could have, surely it's been done before.

You are stating things as fact that are not known to be facts. Basically, you've stated the determinist position. But stating something and proving them are very different things. If you want to assert that things could NOT have turned out other than they have, you have the BOP. Show that for any given state of the universe, no other subsequent state could have been possible.