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If someone can predict everything you will do, they can manipulate events so you will do their bidding according to their predictions. That doesn't leave any ro
by mcbits 10y ago
If someone can predict everything you will do, they can manipulate events so you will do their bidding according to their predictions. That doesn't leave any room for free will. Of course if they're part of the same fully determined system, then they're also just doing what they were destined to do. You would feel like you're making your own decisions, and they would feel like they're manipulating you, but it's all illusion.
- breuleux 10y agoI don't think that's relevant. It may be true that we do not have free will in prison, nor in that very contrived scenario you've cooked up, but that has no bearing on whether we have free will or not when we aren't imprisoned or manipulated.