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Not sure what you mean with it being random. It's not. The choices they made are based on previous choices they made. In that respect it's more akin to an evolu
by ThomPete 10y ago
Not sure what you mean with it being random. It's not. The choices they made are based on previous choices they made. In that respect it's more akin to an evolutionary way of looking at our choices.
You don't need to be manipulated by anyone else it might just be that you simply don't make the choices you think you do but that they are spread out over a much longer timeline.
- rocqua 10y agoI was arguing for the existence of some conception of free will in a deterministic world (i.e. compatiablism). Specifically, I was arguing against the definition of free will where someone has a choice in the sense of 'they could have done something else'. This gets into a harry discussion about what 'could' means.
- ThomPete 10y agoAhh yeah. The way I look at it is basically and to oversimplify: We learn from our past never our present. As long as we survive the present that information gets used to update our reaction in the future. Sometimes large updates (once scorned, twice shy) other times incremental improvement (practice). Perhaps one could say that we dont have free will but things are not 10% deterministic either it's just not our consciousness who is running the show but the entire system.