Posted: Oct 06, 2017 5:41 pm
DavidMcC wrote: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.
If you did something because X then X is a significant cause of your actions. What do you add by also saying it was your free will?
See JP's appeal to unconscious processes which is acting without knowing what or why.