If everything is within a product of former cause and effect, and causality reigns over all, then free will is an illusion.
If there are things that happen indeterminately, then we may have free will. But even if our choices are not determined ahead of time, for every choice we make there are millions more outside of our control. Chance would still play a much more significant role in shaping our lives, as the impact from the decisions that we make would be distilled in a much greater volume of chance.
So what is worse, to know everything that will happen to you is the product of all previous events or that what will happen to you is essentially the product of many previous events outside of your control?
Stratford-Upon-Shakespeare
17 years ago
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I mean, as I've said before the first option is unprovable so I haven't much to say. The second is self-evidently true, at least to a large extent. It is worth pointing out that by learning of one's situation and gaining perspective, under the second option one is at least free from immediate determinations. Also, it seems fairly obvious that throughout human experience certain individuals have had a large impact within themselves, although of course they too rely on some luck.
...pssh...bring back game articles...Mega Man 9!!!!!
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