A Sense of Free Will: the consciousness quagmire (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, November 17, 2015, 18:15 (3294 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: The misunderstanding continues. I have been trying to explain to Romansh that there are different approaches to the subject of free will. You brought up dualism - a very important aspect of your own belief in free will - but I wrote that I wanted to avoid it because it will inevitably lead to God and religion, with all the attendant convolutions. Not YOUR religious ideas, but those that have had theologians tying themselves in knots over the centuries, trying to prove that even though their God knows in advance what they are going to do, they still have free will. And now I'm talking about the very subject I particularly wanted to avoid in this context! (Happy to discuss it under “Difference in degree or kind”.)-You wouldn't have to avoid it, if you would stay away from religious theology completely in philosophic discussion, like I do.