(November 23, 2021 at 9:00 pm)Angrboda Wrote:(November 23, 2021 at 4:21 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Free will cannot exist absolutely unless one is willing to say that all epileptics are choosing to have their seizures or that Alzheimer's patients are choosing to forget the names of their grandchildren.
Who claims that free will is absolute?
(November 23, 2021 at 5:20 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I considered it. However, I believe in giving people who contribute good content to the forum a freebie or two.
Boru
Hot damn! Give me a couple of days to decide how I want to use my Mulligan.
I've already said I think free will is largely an illusion, even though it's subjectively real to me .
Hadn't thought of it in absolute terms. If free will is not absolute, that means it's limited. How is it limited, and exactly where does one draw the line? Or is it a relative thing? If so, relative to what.
EG : When I was conscripted I allowed myself to be inducted into the army because it seemed a lesser evil than the other choices. IE being sent to prison for 2 years, plus losing my civil service job, permanently. OR leave the country for Canada ,where I had a lot of relatives. I had Hobson's choice. Was I exercising my free will when I chose to be inducted?
I ask because I'm intrigued. I'm not seeking truths. As far as I'm concerned , like most metaphysical matters, the free will/determinism dichotomy is unfalsifiable.
