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Elfy
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Free Will and Determinism
A man is locked in a cell and picks up a book from a bookshelf.
Free will or determined?
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Re: Free Will and Determinism
In this case, determinism. Sort of. If you are locked in a cell, and there's one book, almost everyone is going to pick it up. Sure, they used their free will to decide to pick it up, but because of the circumstances, it's almost certain that he was going to do so.
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Re: Free Will and Determinism
"Forced determinism" in that sense. The man will most likely pick up the book and read it if confined in a cell with nothing else to do.
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Re: Free Will and Determinism
Elfy Wrote:A man is locked in a cell and picks up a book from a bookshelf.
Free will or determined?
If there is one book, determined. If there are two, then he used free will to pick which book.
Freedom is never given; it is always taken. So for the fact that you're not a slave, don't thank those in authority. Thank someone with a "bad attitude."
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Re: Free Will and Determinism
Geeksta Wrote:Elfy Wrote:A man is locked in a cell and picks up a book from a bookshelf.
Free will or determined?
If there is one book, determined. If there are two, then he used free will to pick which book.
Why did i have a brain splosion' moment?
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Re: Free Will and Determinism
What if he doesn't pick up the book? Have you even thought of that?
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Re: Free Will and Determinism
Weswammy Wrote:What if he doesn't pick up the book? Have you even thought of that?
Eventually he will. Out of curiosity.
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Re: Free Will and Determinism
Sigh, I thought you left. 
At least you have a post that is slighty interesting.
Free will. The book and cell are influencial in his determining whether to pick the book up or not.He doesn't have to.
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Re: Free Will and Determinism
Nope. Free will. It's only chances, some might have not, some might have. What if you couldn't read, or were scared of the book and it's contents? It's also his/her choice at which time the book can be picked up.
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Re: Free Will and Determinism
Blobthe15 Wrote:Nope. Free will. It's only chances, some might have not, some might have. What if you couldn't read, or were scared of the book and it's contents? It's also his/her choice at which time the book can be picked up.
But are you more likely to pick that certain book up when it was laying on a desk, or locked in a cell with only the book.
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Re: Free Will and Determinism
Derchin Wrote:Weswammy Wrote:What if he doesn't pick up the book? Have you even thought of that?
Eventually he will. Out of curiosity.
Prove it. He might not, there's a very small chance, maybe even so small that in practice nobody will actually not pick up the book, that he won't.
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Re: Free Will and Determinism
Weswammy Wrote:Derchin Wrote:Weswammy Wrote:What if he doesn't pick up the book? Have you even thought of that?
Eventually he will. Out of curiosity.
Prove it. He might not, there's a very small chance, maybe even so small that in practice nobody will actually not pick up the book, that he won't.
Eventually he might.
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Derchin Wrote:Weswammy Wrote:Derchin Wrote:Eventually he will. Out of curiosity.
Prove it. He might not, there's a very small chance, maybe even so small that in practice nobody will actually not pick up the book, that he won't.
Eventually he might.
But he might not, and there's your free will.
I'm not going to say that there is or isn't free will in actuality. I need to ask a question: If we were to create a parallel universe and recreate the Big Bang exactly, and let things go exactly as they have went from that point, would people make different choices? What I mean is that we're made of matter, elements. We are chemical reactions, so would we be any different in a parallel universe that started exactly the same?
However, I think that as a matter of practicality we do have free will. I choose things. Whether or not those choices are actually "free" doesn't matter to me, it very much seems like they are. However, ultimately I'm just reacting to stimuli.
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Phrozen_Soul Wrote:Blobthe15 Wrote:Nope. Free will. It's only chances, some might have not, some might have. What if you couldn't read, or were scared of the book and it's contents? It's also his/her choice at which time the book can be picked up.
But are you more likely to pick that certain book up when it was laying on a desk, or locked in a cell with only the book.
Probably, but it is still free will. Chances, Chances.
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The only way it could not be free will is if it were inevitable he would pick it up then, in that way. Weswammy Wrote:I'm not going to say that there is or isn't free will in actuality. I need to ask a question: If we were to create a parallel universe and recreate the Big Bang exactly, and let things go exactly as they have went from that point, would people make different choices? What I mean is that we're made of matter, elements. We are chemical reactions, so would we be any different in a parallel universe that started exactly the same?
Quantam physics actually renders that a moot point, because it rules out that recreating identical circumstances produces identical outcomes.
Freedom is never given; it is always taken. So for the fact that you're not a slave, don't thank those in authority. Thank someone with a "bad attitude."
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RE: Free Will and Determinism
Free will, of course. It is very possible to make the concious decision to never pick up the book. Or happens to be not remotely interested in books. Why would you do something just because theoretically could, even if you are not interested? Oh the things I can think of I'll never do, even if I easily could, but choose not to...
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RE: Free Will and Determinism
Free will, he will MOST LIKELY pick up the book, but in the end it's his choice to do so resulting in free will.
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RE: Free Will and Determinism
(08-02-2011 11:06 AM)Derchin Wrote: Weswammy Wrote:What if he doesn't pick up the book? Have you even thought of that?
Eventually he will. Out of curiosity.
What if he's illiterate?
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RE: Free Will and Determinism
Determinism.
Even if there were two books to choose from, his decision would be just a product of his brain mechanisms' eventual conclusion.
The closest thing to a free will is logic since it doesn't depend on uncontrollable impulses.
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But he can just easily avoid the book...free will...
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RE: Free Will and Determinism
I believe this discussion is rather pointless. In the present/future "free will" does matter but in the past it happened already so you can't "change" anything... I'd say free will is the ability to think and make choices, and without it we'd be vegetables.
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