I don't understand why I cannot choose consciously to exist in this situation? — Pantagruel
If they say they did, then they don’t have a case. — Wayfarer
FREE WILL — Possibility
Given that I cannot choose to consciously exist in this situation: — Possibility
I’m trying not to complicate it unnecessarily. — Possibility
what does that even mean? — Arne
This is the first discussion topic I have started, so go easy on me. — Possibility
I choose to be aware
I choose to connect
I choose to collaborate — Possibility
But don’t expect me to respond to you venting your frustrations. — Possibility
Either engage meaningfully in the discussion, or find something useful to do elsewhere. — Possibility
an either or command. — Arne
If you believe you have free will and you do not, you could not have believed otherwise.
If you believe you do not have free will and you do, then that is just tragic.
So I live my life as if I have free will. — Arne
Guys, many of us know that believing in something doesn't necessarily make it true and that still acting as if it were true is not very honest. Although there are those who are unwilling or unable to learn and therefore aren't reachable (doomed to fixed ideas), not everyone has that kind of learning disability. — PoeticUniverse
, I ask if if they did so voluntarily. If they claim they didn’t, then I say discussion is pointless as they cannot be persuaded to change their minds — Wayfarer
I guess you would commit suicide? — Pantagruel
If you treat free will as a catch-phrase instead of an a priori conception qualified by a transcendental idea.....
........you might be a metaphysical redneck.
Rhetorically speaking. — Mww
There are often people registering here and posting that ‘free will is an illusion’. When I can be bothered, I ask if if they did so voluntarily. If they claim they didn’t, then I say discussion is pointless as they cannot be persuaded to change their minds. If they say they did, then they don’t have a case. — Wayfarer
If you believe you have free will and you do not, you could not have believed otherwise. — Arne
I always were my helmet. — Arne
Get involved in philosophical discussions about knowledge, truth, language, consciousness, science, politics, religion, logic and mathematics, art, history, and lots more. No ads, no clutter, and very little agreement — just fascinating conversations.