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Theists: How can predetermined fate and free will coexist?
RE: Theists: How can predetermined fate and free will coexist?
Thinking about it, I would think the only one who actually has free will would be the one who knows how it's going to all turn out, and even then it comes down to chemical processes which obey the physical laws of the universe, so humans still wouldn't have "free will", just the illusion of free will.  After all, no matter how strong your will you simply can't stop a chemical process in your brain from happening.  Or make it happen.  If I could account for every particle in the universe and know everything about every particle at any given time, knew all the laws that governed the universe at any point in time and why, and if I were capable of doing all the math required then I could theoretically predict the future to infinity with perfect accuracy.  Barring interference from outside the universe or any process I didn't understand or account for, I could predict with perfect accuracy who you would marry, how many kids you would have, what their names would be, etc.  I could even tell you a true story about the time a book is going to fall off a shelf just as your great, great, great, great grandkid is walking by, causing him to throw his half-drunk coffee into the face of a nearby police officer 200ish years from now, not because I could see it, but because if I know where all the particles are, where all the energy is and the state of all of it I can predict its every interaction, and that includes what is going on in any brain at any point in time and why.
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RE: Theists: How can predetermined fate and free will coexist? - by Asmodee - December 22, 2016 at 11:29 am

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