(March 8, 2012 at 9:33 am)Rhythm Wrote: Randomness isn't the best thing to leverage as far as free will is concerned, I think it was either this thread or the other wonderful free will thread that I might have mentioned the "mad scientist" theory of being forced to make decisions at random, which still wouldn't qualify as free will, but does, sometimes, line up with the observations people make about what "free will" is, or can do. Random does not equal free.
Free will is the opposite of deterministic(or pre determined if you prefer)
So that the choices you make are not part of a clockwork universe playing out it's inevitable program, like a record that will always play the same set of tracks.
Rather, since we live in a chaotic universe where the rules of operation don't automatically determine the outcome of a given event our choices are of the moment.
As always they will be constrained by circumstance, (I want to get a new bike but I don't have the money) but they are our freewill in action.
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If you're not supposed to ride faster than your guardian angel can fly then mine had better get a bloody SR-71.
