Posted: Oct 06, 2017 5:36 pm
GrahamH wrote:scott1328 wrote:
Perhaps you have it backwards. Maybe Free Will is a conclusion and not a premise.
I agree that free will is a conclusion not a premise. That's a fair way to put it. We don't act by exercising free will, we weigh our actions by our ability to identify causes of that action/ If we can't spot why we did it we tend to call it free will.
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You are obviously not thinking of biological free will, because the opposite is true for that - we call it free will if we DO know why we did something. If we don't know why, then it cannot have been freely willed.