RE: Free Will Debate
November 26, 2021 at 10:34 pm
(This post was last modified: November 26, 2021 at 10:36 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I can’t add anything more than the example of the sun. A deterministic free will is that we own our actions like the sun owns its reactions.
To say this is absolutely not what the term is taken to mean in common use and for a long time is an understatement.
A hammer owns its strikes this way. A switch owns its effects this way. Water owns its wetness, so on and so forth, all things ever believed to lack free will turn out to have it. In fact….all things, full stop , have this sort of free will.
It was the contention that we were somehow outside of a causal chain. That our choices were a pull yourself up by your bootstraps kind of thing.
To say this is absolutely not what the term is taken to mean in common use and for a long time is an understatement.
A hammer owns its strikes this way. A switch owns its effects this way. Water owns its wetness, so on and so forth, all things ever believed to lack free will turn out to have it. In fact….all things, full stop , have this sort of free will.
It was the contention that we were somehow outside of a causal chain. That our choices were a pull yourself up by your bootstraps kind of thing.
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