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But if your actions still could change randomly with your personality, memories and everything else that defines you how would that allow for free will? Say th
by Taren 10y ago
But if your actions still could change randomly with your personality, memories and everything else that defines you how would that allow for free will?
Say the universe is perfectly deterministic. You could look into the future by simulating everything perfectly but why would that prohibit free will? Most people wouldn't argue that an all knowing god would mean free will is impossible, why is this different?
- edko 10y agoI think randomness would undermine the "will" part of "free will", whilst perfect determinism would undermine the "free" part of "free will".
- khedoros 10y ago> Most people wouldn't argue that an all knowing god would mean free will is impossible, why is this different? I'd argue that an all-knowing God is something that can't really be reasoned about. It's the introduction of an infinite value into the discussion (or maybe more like a division by zero?). You end up with logically contradictory statements when describing the properties of such a being.
- Taren 10y agoBut isn't it essentially just taking away time as a factor which is pretty much what predicting via determinism would do? Maybe the general definition of free will most people seem to go with just doesn't deal with weird edge cases because it basically developed to fit reality.