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What is free will but an experience? I think it is completely plausible that organisms that exist in a fully deterministic physical reality still have the exper
by vnorilo 5y ago
What is free will but an experience? I think it is completely plausible that organisms that exist in a fully deterministic physical reality still have the experience of free will. Or vice versa for that matter.
Why do "I" have this experience of having a viewpoint and making decisions? That is a mystery that I am not close to solving. However why would any of that define how the universe must work?
Much like a finite being can hold thoughts of Cantor's classes of infinities in her finite brain. The domains in question are unrelated.
- stevenhuang 5y agoThis comes to the definition of terms that much of the free will debate wastes cycles on. Those that deny the concept of free will do not deny the subjective experience of free will. The subjective experience of free will was never under question. The debate has always been about 'hard' free will, i.e., if the universe is fully deterministic, if 'choice' is an illusion.