Virtues and the individual
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Regarding the origin of free will. First of all you would have to define what free will is.
But let us take the weakest form of free will.
Now I remember as a child my mother asking me not to go to the arcade and I remember going to the arcade. I would have said of my own free will. In the normative sense of the word.the apparent human ability to make choices that are not externally determined
So the question you are asking me, I think, is how do we go from a purely deterministic system to one with apparently free will? The answer is unknown. Unknown does not mean then there can't be free will. Unknown means unknown, you can draw no conclusions from an unknown (well maybe some).
For example we perceive what we call cause and effect. But this causes an infinite regression. According to cause and effect the universe is logically impossible. The origin of the universe is unknown. Does this mean the universe doesn't exist?
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I see. I suspect the concept of free will arouse with consciousness. I have no idea when, or how, humans (or other life) became conscious.I was just asking if you knew of the origin of the concept free will
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Many if not most use the term free will not to describe the seemingly random behavior of coins when flipped (the universe), rather whether when I decide to have a ham sandwich for lunch, whether I actually made the decision myself (after careful consideration of turkey), or whether the way particles exploded at the Big Bang determined that I would choose ham 13.8 billion years later.Maxcady10001 wrote: ↑January 4th, 2018, 8:41 pm Were we not speaking about a world based on randomness instead of predetermination?
To the casual observer coins act randomly but people act nonrandomly ie they make deliberate choices, that is they act as if they have free will.
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