Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2017 4:08:32 GMT
tpfkar
@miccee said: Given that the full chain of causality leading up to that choice (and which will determine our decision in that moment) is opaque to us,
previously on free willy
We don't contribute to the process; our brain processes inputs and produces the only output it can from those strands of input. Or if the output is random due to quantum mechanics, then that also isn't attributable to 'free will'.
Massive non sequitur. The thoughts are the direction. And it makes no sense that a "self" should need another "self" directing it ahead of time, except perhaps to the dualists, and even then no, as the self-self would need a self-self-self, and so on.
But we can't direct ourselves to think any thoughts other than the ones that we are predetermined to think. And of course dualism doesn't solve anything, because it leads to an infinite regress. That is why 'free will' in anything other than the compatibilist sense is logically impossible.