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> If there is no free will, there is no point in having a conversation How does this follow? Do you believe that rocks have free will? Why do they choose to be
by chordalkeyboard 6y ago
> If there is no free will, there is no point in having a conversation
How does this follow? Do you believe that rocks have free will? Why do they choose to be attracted to other rocks?
> People can't have opinions or be convinced, they can't decide, they have no agency. The whole language of rational conversation falls down like a house of cards.
How does an opinion rely on “free will”?
> has a free will to ultimately agree or disagree with the presented proof).
One agrees or disagrees on the basis of mental states, there is no “free will” to agree or disagree.
- Erlich_Bachman 6y ago> Do you believe that rocks have free will? Why do they choose to be attracted to other rocks? Having a conversation is like attracting rocks? What? Those things have 0.001% in common...
- chordalkeyboard 6y agoSimple question. Why do rocks choose to attract each other? > Having a conversation is like attracting rocks? What? Those things have 0.001% in common... “Free will” and “having a conversation” have 0 in common so....
- Erlich_Bachman 6y ago> Why do rocks choose to attract each other? This is exactly what they don't do - they don't choose. Rocks attract each other all the time, every time, with fixed force. When people talk, they routinely agree/disagree, convinced/unconvinced, they choose different topics, they choose words, they choose what they think. You are demonstrating the exactly how those two things are nothing alike.
- chordalkeyboard 6y agoSo you connect free will to making a choice? On what basis does a person with free will make choices?