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I was arguing for the existence of some conception of free will in a deterministic world (i.e. compatiablism). Specifically, I was arguing against the definiti

by rocqua 10y ago

I 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 ago
Ahh 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.