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> You can't have free will without consciousness Sure you can. Being consciously aware of a having made a decision does not mean that consciousness was a prer
by munch117 2y ago
> You can't have free will without consciousness
Sure you can. Being consciously aware of a having made a decision does not mean that consciousness was a prerequisite for having made the decision. And then there's all the decisions that we make without being consciously aware of them at all.
- GMoromisato 2y agoWe're just arguing definitions at this point, and I grant that my definition of free will requires consciousness. You're right to ask whether that is the only possible definition of free will. For my purposes, though, I use free will in the context of morality and culpability. And you definitely can't have moral culpability without free will, which is why neither animals nor the insane can be culpable of crimes. And you can't have moral culpability without consciousness. If I kill someone while sleepwalking, I would likely be found not guilty.