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b_b  ·  4597 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Do human beings have free will?
    I am certainly grateful that you have rehashed high school philosophy for me.

I'm actually pretty well read on the subject, and I happen to have a much more simplistic view than many people. Its not a complicated idea, and its been written about since the dawn of thought. It may be boring, but its logically unassailable. Will and choice are inseparable. Lack of will implies a necessarily nihilistic world view, and I reject that on principle. Apologies if this doesn't meet your obvious standard of excellence in philosophic thought.





cgod  ·  4597 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Your principals really don't matter if evolution has mandated that for our particular self perpetuating system to keep making copies of it's self it must be pushed forward by animal spirits. Even a nihilist wants the pigs in a blanket. To say
    If there is no free will, then its absence has no implications, by necessity.
does not remove the experience of pleasure or pain and if by realizing that free will does not or may not exist we can experience a life that is more pleasurable and less painful or even more painful and less pleasurable then there are implications of free will, by necessity.