Message from @windmill man

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2018-12-29 11:18:52 UTC  

its implies free of causality or externalities

2018-12-29 11:19:02 UTC  

even relatively

2018-12-29 11:19:08 UTC  

its still a hard position to defend

2018-12-29 11:19:19 UTC  

hard position to defend free will or go against it ?

2018-12-29 11:21:17 UTC  

to defend free will

2018-12-29 11:23:50 UTC  

Correct me if I'm wrong but if you have the choice between a green colored t-shirt or a yellow colored t-shirt and you choose the green one because you like it and green is your favourite color, but you go back and purchase the yellow one because you don't want a entire closet full of green colored t-shirts, you make the choice yourself don't you ??

2018-12-29 11:24:14 UTC  

choice doesnt equate free will

2018-12-29 11:24:24 UTC  

you made that choice cause of externalities

2018-12-29 11:24:31 UTC  

yea

2018-12-29 11:24:35 UTC  

you base choice on reason

2018-12-29 11:25:00 UTC  

What's defined as free will then? @Deleted User

2018-12-29 11:25:40 UTC  

@windmill man freedom of humans to make choices that are not determined by prior causes or by divine intervention

2018-12-29 11:26:34 UTC  

free will taken to its logical conclusion basically contradicts causality or is contingent on some form of belief in the supernatural

2018-12-29 11:27:29 UTC  

But aren't all choices based on free will then

2018-12-29 11:27:57 UTC  

It's hard for me to understand your position

2018-12-29 11:28:29 UTC  

no

2018-12-29 11:28:42 UTC  

choices would be dependent on previous casual affects

2018-12-29 11:29:09 UTC  

Could you give a example?

2018-12-29 11:29:21 UTC  

okay

2018-12-29 11:29:32 UTC  

@windmill man do you have the choice to move your right hand?

2018-12-29 11:29:38 UTC  

I do

2018-12-29 11:30:02 UTC  

Normally it's a unconscious process but the moment I think to myself I want to move my hand I can

2018-12-29 11:30:02 UTC  

@windmill man if i were to cut it off. Afterwards would you have the choice to move your right hand?

2018-12-29 11:30:24 UTC  

not anymore, my brain would still send the signals but there would no longer be a right hand

2018-12-29 11:30:58 UTC  

@windmill man thats because your choice is restricted by the state of reality and the casual effects that exist in it

2018-12-29 11:31:19 UTC  

so you wouldnt have that choice

2018-12-29 11:31:25 UTC  

now can you control your brain?

2018-12-29 11:31:31 UTC  

The entire world is restricted by nature laws isnt it

2018-12-29 11:31:59 UTC  

I can control my brain, because my brain is still there, and I can reach it without breaking the laws of physics

2018-12-29 11:32:29 UTC  

whats the mechanism by which you control your brain?

2018-12-29 11:33:08 UTC  

the thing is there is none

2018-12-29 11:33:23 UTC  

at least no evidence for one

2018-12-29 11:33:25 UTC  

Am I not my brain?

2018-12-29 11:33:44 UTC  

your brain is whats making the choice and its operates on casual effects

2018-12-29 11:33:52 UTC  

in other words

2018-12-29 11:34:08 UTC  

your "choice" is simply an illusion of it

2018-12-29 11:34:42 UTC  

but are you not your brain?

2018-12-29 11:35:17 UTC  

yeah but that simply means "you" arent making a choice

2018-12-29 11:35:21 UTC  

youre simply acting

2018-12-29 11:35:36 UTC  

??

2018-12-29 11:35:37 UTC  

RUH ROH RAGGY

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