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Post by PanLeo on Jun 13, 2017 8:25:52 GMT
There is no empirical evidence that if you wind back the clock ten minute everything will turn out the same so how can you say such a thing? Time travel to the past is impossible, so we could never have experimental proof. But to even imagine that the conscious actor would be have differently is impossible. For a start, you would at least need to introduce dualism - there would need to be some kind of ethereal force directing the brain to behave differently than it otherwise would have done, most probably one that would need to transcend time. Secondly, you would then need to explain the why the ethereal 'soul' was caused to choose differently the second time, but the whole point of the free will argument is that behaviour isn't constrained by causality, so once you'd found what caused the soul (or whatever you would call it) to choose the way it did you would have defeated the argument in favour of free will. No it would just need to be that something different happens for whatever reason, maybe thats just how to universe works. Certain causes might lead to different effects. Maybe there is a metaphorical role of the dice. That whole wind the clock back argument is the equivalent of throwing a dice once and getting six and then claiming you can only get six if you role the dice. |
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