nixsensei

nixsensei t1_j4losre wrote

On free will
The more I think about free will the less it seems reasonably possible.
First, lets define Free will.
I had a pretty clear Idea but I look it up on Wikipedia to find an already wide consensus on its definition: Free will is the capacity of the ability to choose between different possible courses of action unimpeded.
Being able to choose means there are real possibilities to choose from.
Unimpeded means not being force, push or nudge.
Second, what are the necessary requirement for free will to exist.
If we can show that those requirements exist we can, then, reasonably think that free will is possible.
Not yet proving it exist but might exist.
Can a 6 sided die can fall on its 8th faces?
Of course not. Being a cube exclude having more than 6 faces. So it’s “choice” is confined. It cannot “choose” to fall in any other ways.
It structurally impossible.
I guess we are all humans here, reading this. Or maybe ChatGPT is.
Anyway for the sake of argument it is not important.
Being humans implies a lot of limitations and reduces the choices we can make.
You did not choose to be human. You did not choose where and when you are born.
You did not choose you parents, culture, language… any social-economics conditions.
Your gender, your genes, your environment.
And not remembering you have chosen is not an argument, it is not an explanation. And in fact limits you more add constrain and tend to push toward no free will.
OK lets suppose you are on a road and there is an intersection. You may choose to go right or left.
Both choices lead to the same road. So you can freely chose to go left or right.
Witch way do you choose?
Can I choose to go both ways? Why left or right? Why not up or down or back? Why?
Why am I on a road? Did I choose a road with no other choices than left or right? Why am I on this road?
Why am I speaking the language I speak? I am sure nobody is born being able to speak Polish and Japanese… Why? We don’t have to choose because this is not REAL possibilities.
We are like a 6 sided die. We can’t choose what we cannot choose.
Can I choose to live forever? Not just saying so, or believing so until I die. I mean really live because I choose too.
Can we be smarter than we are by sheer will? It will be thinking that we can be taller by sheer will.
I think we cannot.
To resumed: Where there is no real choices there is no way we can show there is free will.
What can we choose by our self that is not implicit or force on us?

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