RE: There Is No Such Thing As Free Will

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There Is No Such Thing As Free Will

in philosophy •  7 years ago 

how do you know that that idea did not stem from a movie you saw?

I don't. That doesn't change that the choice still exists.

nop. it is an outcome of a series of events. in the same way i have no choice a the rate my hair grows.

The choice to live is an inherent right of being a human, which is different than your conditioned DNA that determines the rate at which your hair grows.

That being said I'm not under the impression that as people realize their choice, the choice to change our rate of hair growth will become more readily available by changing our DNA through choice - like Breatharians.

choice is a random variable that remains to be picked up. If i present two choice you have two. if present 10 you have 10. the environment dictates what choices are available and what not

If you give me 10 choices I still have infinite choices as I'm not bound by your perceived number of choices.

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I don't. That doesn't change that the choice still exists.

irrelevant to whether free will exists. choices to exist. how do you know if they are yours is the real question.

If you give me 10 choices I still have infinite choices as I'm not bound by your perceived number of choices.

well yeah but this is not what happens in real life. nature narrows our choices and due to the nature of our lives we only pick up on some

how do you know if they are yours is the real question.

What do you mean if they were mine? Who's other choice would it be?

the people which whom you interact with.

So you're saying that it's my choice if you eat Icecream or not?

Just by mentioning ice-cream now you might indeed have influenced my decision this afternoon to eat ice-cream or crepe

Influenced, sure, but influence does not equal force.

influence means that it is not your choice. now imagine that everything you do since birth is the result of trillions of small influences, gradually expressed into given actions from which none of them are truly yours.