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Why does the idea of no Free Will bother some people?
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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6048141" data-attributes="member: 177"><p>Well, your second paragraph refers to "refusal" and that (at least to me) implies choice. I didn't want to approach what looked like a muddled message there.</p><p></p><p>I think we are actually in agreement: If you have no free will, whether you study or not, whether that study will change your reaction or not - they happen, or they do not, depending on the programming. The result was determined the time the event occurred. Really, if you're going full determinism, it was determined day the Universe was created. </p><p></p><p>If you don't have free will, the reason you don't like the idea of not having it is that *you are made that way*. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That just means that I, in my ignorance, cannot predict the outcome with the information I have. </p><p></p><p>That virus is still itself code. The code isn't actually "glitchy", in that it is still doing *exactly* what it is told to do. You perceive it as a glitch because it isn't what you intended or expected it to do - but computers are not bound by your intent, but by your exact statement. Digital computers are still entirely deterministic in their action.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 6048141, member: 177"] Well, your second paragraph refers to "refusal" and that (at least to me) implies choice. I didn't want to approach what looked like a muddled message there. I think we are actually in agreement: If you have no free will, whether you study or not, whether that study will change your reaction or not - they happen, or they do not, depending on the programming. The result was determined the time the event occurred. Really, if you're going full determinism, it was determined day the Universe was created. If you don't have free will, the reason you don't like the idea of not having it is that *you are made that way*. That just means that I, in my ignorance, cannot predict the outcome with the information I have. That virus is still itself code. The code isn't actually "glitchy", in that it is still doing *exactly* what it is told to do. You perceive it as a glitch because it isn't what you intended or expected it to do - but computers are not bound by your intent, but by your exact statement. Digital computers are still entirely deterministic in their action. [/QUOTE]
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