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I believe very strongly that free will is tied to the existence of randomness. Without randomness there can be no free will. From the little I've read it appe
by aplusbi 16y ago
I believe very strongly that free will is tied to the existence of randomness. Without randomness there can be no free will.
From the little I've read it appears that true randomness does exist, in that there are experiments where all causally relevant variables are controlled and yet the outcome is still uncertain.
I'm not convinced that there is true randomness in the universe however, and I guess that means I subscribe to some sort of hidden variable theory with regards to the aforementioned experiments.
- jaekwon 16y agoI don't think free will has anything to do with randomness. Rather, if you assume that free will exists, then you are cornered into looking for it in randomness. And you say yourself, that you don't believe in randomness in the universe. Even if there were randomness, it wouldn't explain much more than determinism because there is plenty of chaos without it. Read my other posting here and try to figure out why you want to believe in free will.