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Author Topic:   Free will: an illusion
SuperNintendo Chalmers
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Message 95 of 309 (321930)
06-15-2006 2:14 PM
Reply to: Message 92 by iano
06-15-2006 2:01 PM


what?
If there is no creator God then you are a biological machine
Whether or not there is a god or gods everyone's body is a biological machine. This is irrelevant.
and free will is an illusion.
Why? This makes absolutely zero sense. I can choose to type this sentence right now... I have free will.
A machine deciding for itself that it has free will is its perogative.
The ability to decide you have free will means you have free will by definition. Sorry Ian, you just proved yourself wrong.
But there is no reason to trust the machinations of such an entity. It is churning out notions it must churn out.
This makes no sense at all. If an entity can make choices it has free will. What does trust have to do with anything?
Discussion is pointless as I pointed out
I hope you realize that you basically just proved the exact point you are arguing against.
The only scenario under which there could be no free will is the one where an omniscient being or beings exist

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