You have not read my other posts.…
If you agree that we would always make the same calls if we were to replicate the circumstances exactly, then even though that is impossible, you are saying that free will is an illusion.
I’ve read your posts, John. I’m just not sure that I agree with them.You have not read my other posts.
Free will is not at all about the making of choices - it is about Assenting willingly to the things you are doing rather than Dissenting to the things you are doing yet still having to do them.
Knowing Assent Acting rather than unknowing reacting.
Certainly worthy of consideration. I don’t like the idea of determinism any more than the next guy (you being the next guy in this case, John), but arguments against free will seem to imply it. Is a psychopath doomed to play the part? Is it a script he must follow? And if that is so, can it be said that we can hold him responsible?If these assertions about no free will were true, that one “is a function”, outputting consistently identical behavior from identical (name removed by moderator)uts, then there would be no culpability.
You said “need or want.” Reasons do not compel the will; you have not established causal necessity.That is why I choose “want” instead of “need”. You need food and you may choose or want to starve because of a reason for example to show that you have free will. But the very fact that you want to starve is based on a reason means that you are not free.
I am sure that you have experienced moments that you are not sure about what option to choose for period of time. I had such of experience.
The choices should be equally liked if there is no constraint.That is the definition of an un-determined will (able to do many different things)
Free has to do with the will either being constrained or not - willingly doing the chosen thing versus unwillingly doing the chosen thing.
Reason does compel the will even if it is whatever.You said “need or want.” Reasons do not compel the will; you have not established causal necessity.
No that means that you are uncertain about options because they are equally liked.I experience uncertainty from time to time, but that proves nothing.
Is it possible to freely choose a spouse? If so, how?No that means that you are uncertain about options because they are equally liked.
You are still have two options: not to have or have a spouse.Is it possible to freely choose a spouse? If so, how?
According to your theory it seems that most people do not choose their partners freely because their “want” has no equal.
Yes, but what if you like two women (for example) unequally?You are still have two options: not to have or have a spouse.
Then you pick up the woman you like more unless there is a reason, like whatever.Yes, but what if you like two women (for example) unequally?
Sounds like free to me - picking what you want rather than being a slave to being stuck with what you don’t want.Then you pick up the woman you like more unless there is a reason, like whatever.
You are slave in both cases. Either slave of what you like or reason.Sounds like free to me - picking what you want rather than being a slave to being stuck with what you don’t want.
Why that should be matter?But, will the woman want you?