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Free Will
Dec 5, 2022 23:09:30 GMT -5
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Post by believingjesus on Dec 5, 2022 23:09:30 GMT -5
I’m inclined to agree with this fellow - Sam Harris- on the subject of free will. We don’t really have it. And so the idea of being punished eternally for what we do is nonsense. What do you think? youtu.be/pCofmZlC72gAt the very least, I agree that it is extremely difficult to prove that we have free will. Even most Christians believe that everything happens according to their god’s will which is not compatible with people having free will. On a side note, I read a philosophy book on free will and I have yet to understand compatibilism (sp?). I know what it’s trying to say but if the future is predetermined doesn’t that make choices simply illusory? If you understand compatibilism, please share.
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Post by snow on Dec 6, 2022 17:37:09 GMT -5
I’m inclined to agree with this fellow - Sam Harris- on the subject of free will. We don’t really have it. And so the idea of being punished eternally for what we do is nonsense. What do you think? youtu.be/pCofmZlC72gAt the very least, I agree that it is extremely difficult to prove that we have free will. Even most Christians believe that everything happens according to their god’s will which is not compatible with people having free will. On a side note, I read a philosophy book on free will and I have yet to understand compatibilism (sp?). I know what it’s trying to say but if the future is predetermined doesn’t that make choices simply illusory? If you understand compatibilism, please share. Soft determinism (or compatibilism) is the position or view that causal determinism is true, but we still act as free, morally responsible agents when, in the absence of external constraints, our actions are caused by our desires. Compatibilism does not maintain that humans are free. How I see it is this. We don't have a predetermined life as in fate for example but because of how we are made, life circumstances etc. we don't all have access to information that we make informed decisions with. When we make decisions in life if we could do something that we have never contemplated, then we won't do that. We have no choice in that decision to make a better or worse decision if we have no cognizance of the information to form it. Free will is limited to making choices based on what we know, what our brain chemistry will allow etc. Where free will fails is when we say we have complete free will because that isn't possible unless we have access mentally to all possibilities to make a choice from.
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