Re:Your subconscious is smarter than you might think
by mehwoot on Thursday February 19, 2015 @02:51AM
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Belief requires free will
Why?
Re:Your subconscious is smarter than you might think
by elros on Thursday February 19, 2015 @08:42AM
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I haven't read parent's point, but I guess one could argue that belief requires the hability to ponder opposing views and choose one. The choice part is where free will comes in.
Re:Your subconscious is smarter than you might think
by leppr on Thursday February 19, 2015 @10:11AM
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The word "believing" doesn't imply choice anymore, for example you can say an earthworm believes all big animals are the same just because that's how it thinks, not because it made a choice to think that way.
Well now we're just talking about words though.
Belief requires free will, making "driven by" contradictory. There may be a mixture or a degree removed, but the idea that free will doesn't exist is always self-contradictory.