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Not really. If you’re stuck in rush hour traffic, your “free will” is limited by your immediate surroundings, specifically the cars around you. Sure, you could
by revscat 7y ago
Not really. If you’re stuck in rush hour traffic, your “free will” is limited by your immediate surroundings, specifically the cars around you. Sure, you could abandon your car and walk or something, but that’s not likely a rational choice.
Given that “free will” is limited, and doubly so when operating a vehicle, that’s not very much of a rebuttal.
- sorokod 7y agoLimited or not, it is different from having none at all. Obviously it is up to the individual to quantify the loss.
- toasterlovin 7y agoFWIW, there is zero evidence that anything like the common conception of free will exists. It is basically a folk explanation for a decision matrix that has hundreds or thousands of inputs that are mostly opaque to the tools currently at our disposal. There is no reason to believe that there will be anything left which we can label "free will" once we are able to measure and quantify all of these inputs and the system operating on them.