Posted: Nov 29, 2016 10:24 am
GrahamH wrote:ughaibu wrote:But, you yourself would be part of that future. Borges' map, et fucking cetera. If your behaviour is determined, then so is creationism, so are all other mistakes, and there is no independent way to distinguish the mistakes from the truth.GrahamH wrote:In a determined world without free will predicting the future would be possible. If you can discover the rules and measure the initial conditions you can predict the future.Fuck off. I have defined free will aprops several contexts, and it never amounts to "ignorance".GrahamH wrote:You could simply call that ignorance "free will" if you like.
You have never demonstrated knowledge of why anyone decides A rather than B. That certainly looks like an argument from ignorance.
Good call, Graham. We're ignorant of why anyone would accept or reject Free Will without consideration of something unrelated. Unless, you know, everything is related to everything else, and Karma is real, which has nothing to do with ignorance.