Free Will, Consciousness, Identity (Identity)

by xeno6696 @, Sonoran Desert, Friday, July 13, 2012, 12:23 (4515 days ago) @ David Turell


> > NO I am NOT saying "no free will." I'm saying, that the the question "Do I have free will" is utterly irrelevant in the first place. I don't know if you've been paying attention to my exchanges with dhw, but *because* we can only *will* one thing at a time, and we cannot *ever* tell the difference between a "free" and "unfree" action, the entire question is really pointless.
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> Thank you again. I have not studied or worried about the issue of free will. For me I feel I have it, and that is enough for me. I'm just not that deep into philosophic thought.-Well good friend, you ARE after all a retired surgeon! :-)-If you pay attention to my next post, I will put dhw's fears about "will" to rest. It reduces to the "Am I a Brain in a Vat" problem, and the ONLY solution to that problem is "What reason do I have to think I'm a Brain in a Vat?"

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"


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