vortex878
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Do yall believe in free will
I personally don’t, here’s why
For an action to be controllable you must be able to control the cause of the action. For example you wouldn’t say that it was your choice to pick an orange instead of an apple if you were forced to pick the orange.
But likewise, via the same logic, to control the cause you must also control the cause of the cause. And to control the cause of the cause, you must control the cause of the cause of the cause, and so on infinitely. Infinite regress. Which isn’t possible
But say you control the cause, and that cause doesn’t have an additional prior cause for you to control so no infinite regress. Well then it’s still out of your control because if the cause doesn’t have a cause then it’s random. And if it’s random then by definition it’s out of your control
Thoughts?
I personally don’t, here’s why
For an action to be controllable you must be able to control the cause of the action. For example you wouldn’t say that it was your choice to pick an orange instead of an apple if you were forced to pick the orange.
But likewise, via the same logic, to control the cause you must also control the cause of the cause. And to control the cause of the cause, you must control the cause of the cause of the cause, and so on infinitely. Infinite regress. Which isn’t possible
But say you control the cause, and that cause doesn’t have an additional prior cause for you to control so no infinite regress. Well then it’s still out of your control because if the cause doesn’t have a cause then it’s random. And if it’s random then by definition it’s out of your control
Thoughts?
