On 6/5/2018 7:58 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
If I understand correctly, you define free-will as the ability to act independently from other people, biological instincts and so on. My problem is that free-will must be free from something. I can accept it as a relative concept -- my free-will in relation to what other people want me to do, as you say.
As Dennett puts it, that's all the free-will worth having. You don't want to do stuff at random. You don't want to do stuff inconsistent with you genetics, education, life experience, ethics,...you want to do stuff consistent with who you are.
Brent
But isn't it the case that, if you zoom out enough, there is nothing for the will to be free from? Just a bunch of stuff happening? If your Universal Dovetailer is the source-code of reality, doesn't it contain all computations? Then whatever I choice I make "here" is replaced by another choice somewhere else. I have the impression that free-will in this context amounts to an inability to perceive everything. Best, Telmo.
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