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Do you think you have free will?
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Do you think you have free will?
21Yes. Well actually I think not, but my free will allows me to vote yes regardless42.86%9No, I just blindly follow unknown rules that I only think I have control over33.33%7AndyW could do whatever he liked23.81%5 -
No, mine cost me more than a thousand euros. Bloody solicitors, they’re like contractors but more expensive.And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014 -
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As an intellectual exercise it's kept philosophers off the streets and out of trouble for centuries. As a practical question it's pointless.
If we don't have free will we have no awareness of that fact, so from our point of view we do, because we don't know we don't. If we do have free will then it's no different to the above."Being nice costs nothing and sometimes gets you extra bacon" - Pondlife.Comment
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Originally posted by DaveB View PostAs an intellectual exercise it's kept philosophers off the streets and out of trouble for centuries. As a practical question it's pointless.
If we don't have free will we have no awareness of that fact, so from our point of view we do, because we don't know we don't. If we do have free will then it's no different to the above.
In other words, I don’t know.And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014Comment
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Originally posted by DaveB View PostAs an intellectual exercise it's kept philosophers off the streets and out of trouble for centuries. As a practical question it's pointless.
If we don't have free will we have no awareness of that fact, so from our point of view we do, because we don't know we don't. If we do have free will then it's no different to the above.
I dunno about that.
But I do know about kittens and knitting.Practically perfect in every way....there's a time and (more importantly) a place for malarkey.
+5 Xeno Cool PointsComment
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Originally posted by DaveB View PostAs an intellectual exercise it's kept philosophers off the streets and out of trouble for centuries. As a practical question it's pointless.
If we don't have free will we have no awareness of that fact, so from our point of view we do, because we don't know we don't. If we do have free will then it's no different to the above.Comment
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostAre we not in danger of falling into an excluded middle fallacy? Perhaps we have a sort of ‘bounded free will’ whereby we can choose freely within the bounds of those choices of which we are aware in any given context, but that we are restricted to the choices of which we are aware; that awareness is perhaps controlled by rules that are unknown to us.
In other words, I don’t know.Comment
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Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostQuite. And also, if we do have free will, where does it come from? What decides what choices we make if it isn't random or based on incognisant rules.
But that would mean that free will doesn't exist. Only restrictions can exist.And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014Comment
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Originally posted by MaryPoppins View PostEh?Older and ...well, just older!!Comment
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