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>Morality is predicated on free will in the sense that without free will humans cannot do good or bad things, because if our behavior is entirely deterministic,
by dudeman13 6y ago
>Morality is predicated on free will in the sense that without free will humans cannot do good or bad things, because if our behavior is entirely deterministic, no action is truly an action and therefore cannot be good or bad.
How would non-deterministic actions be any more subject to morality than deterministic ones?
Surely randomness isn't subject to morals?
- betwixthewires 6y agoAlright, replace "deterministic" with "not decided by us" then and your answer is in the part you quoted. What I was focusing on was not deterministic v random, it is whether the individual makes the decision to do something or not.
- dudeman13 6y agoFair enough about not focusing on dereministic/not deterministic, although I would still like to know your opinion on it. As far as I can see it, both a deterministic and non deterministic reality can't possibly have free will. Is this fundamentally a false dichotomy then (there's some other category or interval to reality that isn't covered by deterministic/non-deterministic)? You can't really use your free will as an argument for reality not being ( deterministic OR not deterministic ) since your feelings of being free to pick X instead of Y could potentially be an illusion. I.E. you think you have free will, but enough computing power would be able to predict all the things you'll decide or the relevant probability distribution