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  • Does God have free will?

    His nature is fixed. And he can't change them. He as all other things in the universe is a consequence and he can't change who he is. Which makes him without freewill.
  • Does God have free will?

    Well, in his created world how did things become pious and sinful?
  • Does God have free will?

    Then he is programmed.
  • Does God have free will?

    God is constrained by his properties. He can't change his own nature. He is with rules and regulations and he can't go against them. And if there are rules and regulations for God. U can ask where do those rules and regulations come. Which makes God without freewill. Which in a way makes him no God.
  • Does God have free will?

    Again I ask how does God create morality?
  • Does God have free will?

    Let me explain my reasoning.
    Where does morality come from? Is it there for God to find and set or is it set by God in the first place?
    If it is God that finds it, it implies there is a higher order he obeys, and if he sets it in the first place, by what mechanisms does he reach those decisions to make some actions pious and some other sin. How does he know?
    If ur answer is, he from the beginning knows it. It means he was programmed to be who he is and he doesn't have power over himself which takes away his free will. And if ur answer is he learns if after seeing the actions of humans, the same reasoning can be used to extrapolate that he is without free will.

    And to answer ur question, having all powers doesn't actually mean he has free will.
    Being all powerful and with out free will can go together.
    I am able to do anything that is humanly possible yet I am not without free will.
  • An Argument Against Reductive Physicalism


    My usage of relation is quite vague and I apologize for that. What I meant by relation is the phenomenon by which the properties of Q are the direct result of P, through ways that may be known or unknown to us.


    Example
    The property of wetness can be described as a direct result of water molecules, through a process known to us: when water molecules assemble to give liquid the property of wetness emerges. one water molecule is not wet by itself nor is the property of wetness external and unrelated to the water molecules.
    And in case of consciousness’s subjective aspect there are different theories that link it to the objective aspect of the mind through different processes yet to be proven scientifically.
    One example is the theory where consciousness’s subjective aspect is an emergency of information processing in mind, thus transcending the layer in which it emerges from the physical parts of the mind but rather emerges from what those physical parts are doing: processing information.
    My definition of relation in the above case mentioned that be interpreted in different ways so ask me again if you are not sure what I want to say.

    And your example of using tornadoes and hurricanes was not a case for what I tried to say by relation between an emergetive property and the object that gives rise to the property, since Tornadoes and hurricanes aren’t related in such way.
  • An Argument Against Reductive Physicalism
    Sorry for my late responses
  • An Argument Against Reductive Physicalism
    Why haven’t u considered the subjective aspect of consciousness originating from the objective one, thus rephrasing the first premise roughly:
    A phenomenon can be given an exhaustive Objective explanation iff all its aspects can be related to an Object(s)-for-a-Subject.
    i.e the emergetive theory of consciousness’s subjective aspect from the processing of information in an objective medium.
  • Natural Evil Explained
    That creates the question that is a God that gives priority to free will rather than the well being of his creations is even a God with all the Omni properties?
  • Natural Evil Explained
    I don’t think we can blame it on someone. There is no one to be blamed. Every bodies actions are result of his/her biological genies and her/his environment in which no one has control over.
  • Natural Evil Explained
    But if we are using that “it is all part of his plan” logic what kind of God would he/she be if his/her plan requires the death of children and mothers, and if he/she is powerful enough to create any kind of universe but created one where children have to suffer for his/her plan then is that a good God?

    And if we assume if God is good then he would have created a better universe thus if God is all powerful then he/she is not all good and if he/she is all good the he/she is not all powerful.
  • Natural Evil Explained
    Then the question is still there can God be all powerful and all good at the same time?
  • Natural Evil Explained
    I suppose we are assuming the abrahamic God.