My friend raised his philosophy theory today, and I felt compelled to ask it here:
He believes that in situations, such as me eating chocolate, under the EXACT same circumstances (hence no variables have changed), then we will do the exact same things again, if the situation occured again. Hence, he argues, the reason why we do not have free will. (His definition of free will is the ability to make any choice in the world we want to). He argues that we don't have choices because we do the same things over again in the same situations (if NO variables have changed, so if my mental state of mind changed and I stopped eating chocolate, that is not my free will because a variable has changed - my mental mind). He says I couldn't just stop eating chocolate, as a factor - variable - would have changed for me to stop. (It could be I saw I was getting fat).
So, what do you all think of this? It's interesting, although I only believe some of it because I believe we do have a form of free will
2007-04-04
19:07:10
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Quynh N
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