(April 18, 2012 at 11:25 am)genkaus Wrote:(April 18, 2012 at 11:18 am)Perhaps Wrote: Correct, that is what the mind allows us - we just call it free will.
So why don't you have the free will to grow wings and fly?
I think I do have the capacity, but I exist in the reality my mind creates, and that reality doesn't allow for me to do so.
I view the mind as being omnipotent, and to ask the question of whether it is able to create a situation which doesn't correspond with the reality it created thus far is similar to asking the notorious 'can God create a rock so big that he can't lift it'. It's simply a misunderstanding of omnipotence.
This becomes more complicated when you introduce other minds and an external material world as well. I'm not sure how I would address these; I haven't devoted deep thought to this subject in a long while, although this conversation has spurred me to do more so recently.
Brevity is the soul of wit.