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Chico will post here anyway. Something along the lines of
"Yes of course humans have free will. But if they do something that God doesn't like, then he will smite them in hellfire and damnation, etc, blah blah blah".
That's how Chico defines Free Will
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
No-one has free will as there is only one dimension in space-time. There is no entropy and nothing is random.
Everything is governed by trillions of immutable formulas which lead to only one function that every entity however small can do.
If there was a powerful enough computer (impossible), every interaction could be calculated and the future determined, but it's impossible as the machine would need to be larger than the universe.
Free will is an illusion - part of the human conscious.
If there was a powerful enough computer (impossible), every interaction could be calculated and the future determined, but it's impossible as the machine would need to be larger than the universe.
Not true. The universe continually spawns new formulas which would constantly leave the big computer in need of a new program.
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