Opethian said:
Yes, and these choices can theoretically be predicted, so they aren't really choices.
No, because the way I react right now, think right now, and what I do right now, can be theoretically predicted. There is no junction in the road, there is only a single road that stretches on.
I will make a choice, but whether it be positive or negative, is not based on free will. It is based on input, processing, and output.
Ushta Opethian
That choice can be predicted does:tsk: not affect your ability to freely choose it. Even if we could predict some one else's choices with a 100 % accuracy , it will be still be a free choice to that person. Obviously no one knows 100% what one will choose for himself a priori so , there is little relation between predicting and outcome and whether or not the choice was free.
Now if it can be proven that your choice are predestined , then you would have a point.:jiggy:
As to your choices being based on inputs pricessing and outputs , Yes so? people ought to choose based on information processing and pondering on that information and acting on it The point of free will is that you decide what to choose ; after all inputing processing and outputing, is not decided for you these are acts you engage in freely!:bow:
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