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I view the debate over free will as missing the point about context. Context is everything. An analogy would be rolling a dice with your hand onto a table. I
by JeffL 16y ago
I view the debate over free will as missing the point about context. Context is everything.
An analogy would be rolling a dice with your hand onto a table. Is this random? A physicist could say, "no", how you roll it, what the speed it's going, how hard the table is, etc, etc, determine exactly what number will come up. But we don't know all that. To the context of our experience, that dice roll is random.
Similarly, everything we think or do is predetermined by the current state of the universe and our own nature, but to us, we are making choices. In the context of our human experience, we do have free will. Just like it could be theoretically possible to predict the dice roll, it is theoretically possible to predict any persons future action. But we don't have access to that information, so for us, that information, and thus the determination of the future might as well not exist.