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That's silly. A NOT gate will change state when stimulated by a logic signal. Neither the signal nor the gate have "free will" in any meaningful sense but it ha
by AlexandrB 3y ago
That's silly. A NOT gate will change state when stimulated by a logic signal. Neither the signal nor the gate have "free will" in any meaningful sense but it happens anyways.
Arguably, you're disproving your own point by eliciting a reaction that's not rational according to someone's belief system.
- Turing_Machine 3y agoThen there's no reason for me not to do it, then. Right? We all should do exactly as evolution encourages us to do in any situation.
- mr_toad 3y ago> We all should do exactly as evolution encourages us to do in any situation. What makes you think we don’t?
- vidarh 3y agoThis argument is logically incoherent. Whether or not you have free will, punching someone in the face is likely to have consequences. That is your reason to consider whether or not to do it. If we assume you have free will, it provides you with the opportunity to actively make the choice that will get you the best outcome. If we assume you do not, then that won't alter the outcomes, nor the reasons to prefer one choice over the other, the only thing that has changed is whether or not the choice you made was a genuine choice or would always play out the same way if we somehow was able to rewind time. That the outcome would be the same given the same input and same state of your mind does not mean there was no reasons not to act a given way, only that you had no agency in which outcome you actually end up with. But the state of your mind would be a factor in that, and a belief that your decisions has no effect on your future outcomes so it doesn't matter what you choose to do certainly would make you less likely to end up with good ones. Whether or not "rewinding time" would let you make different "choices" does not alter that.