RE: Free Will Debate
November 23, 2021 at 3:24 pm
(This post was last modified: November 23, 2021 at 3:39 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I couldn’t help but stop reading when the author dropped the dumb bomb of “no free will, then science isn’t valid”.
On account of how it one, wasn’t true, and two, would only be an argument from poor consequences if it were.
It seems to me that the entire bit can be boiled down to, “ we have free will, because we’re deciders”. A less than impressive non seq. Ofc we’re deciders…..and so is the thermostat on your ac.
Similarly, the second is another no shit statement. If we reduce free will to mean “whatever we do have” then we have it by default regardless of whether whatever we have is in any meaningful sense free.
On account of how it one, wasn’t true, and two, would only be an argument from poor consequences if it were.
It seems to me that the entire bit can be boiled down to, “ we have free will, because we’re deciders”. A less than impressive non seq. Ofc we’re deciders…..and so is the thermostat on your ac.
Similarly, the second is another no shit statement. If we reduce free will to mean “whatever we do have” then we have it by default regardless of whether whatever we have is in any meaningful sense free.
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