Re:There is free will: we make choices even if our atoms don’t
by athroway on Thursday May 16, 2019 @08:33AM
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That's the case for many abstract notions no one seems to agree on. Art, culture, nation, justice... No one really agrees on what they're supposed to be, only on single instances. Doesn't make the more encompassing abstraction any less real or useful.
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Re:There is free will: we make choices even if our atoms don’t
by thejohnconway on Thursday May 16, 2019 @09:00AM
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No, I don't think that's it. Art, justice, etc, have constituent parts. People disagree, but there's lots of stuff in those boxes. When I turn my minds eye to free will, there's nothing there.
Re:There is free will: we make choices even if our atoms don’t
by iamnothere on Thursday May 16, 2019 @12:46PM
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> Art, culture, nation, justice...
Hence why there can be no true hard science based around these areas, and indeed no agreed-upon "truth".