On 20 October 2013 12:15, Craig Weinberg <whatsons...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Saturday, October 19, 2013 6:31:23 PM UTC-4, stathisp wrote: >> >> On 20 October 2013 00:53, Craig Weinberg <whats...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Free will is not about an inability to predict your own decisions, it is >> > about a desire to directly dictate perceived conditions, and an >> > expectation >> > of the effectiveness of that desire. >> >> And that too is compatible with randomness or determinism. > > > Only from the retrospective view (from which anything can automatically be > justified). Prospectively, I can think of no plausible reason for any such > desire or expectation to arise from a random or deterministic universe. Why > would it, and how could it?
I don't see how that constitutes any sort of argument. Does the fact that every human naturally thinks the Earth is flat mean the Earth is in fact flat, on the grounds that there would otherwise be no reason for such a belief to be so widespread? Does the fact that every culture has come up with religious beliefs mean God exists? -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
