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user-inactivated  ·  4056 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski's Thoughts on Free Will

Free will is defined as being able to make your own decisions free from any influence but your own consciousness.





mk  ·  4056 days ago  ·  link  ·  

How would that be possible? Wouldn't you need to remove all input? Yet even the removal of input is input. IMO it is nonsensical to describe a material entity functioning in a non-material manner. It's a paradoxical notion that only arises if you suppose a dualist nature of mind, of which we have no evidence.

user-inactivated  ·  4056 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Precisely. That is the general consensus of this thread: free will is not possible.

mk  ·  4055 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I can agree with that. However, I don't think the statement is very useful. That is, it doesn't prove a corollary, i.e. Laplace's demon.