"Free will is having the ability to pro-actively (passively and actively) propagate a course of action [based on need or desire] for the purpose of gaining or altering an aspect of owns own perception or position within an environment that one is [willingly or unwillingly] subjected to. Even to the extent of completely removing oneself entirely, so that no action needs to be taken, which in turn will create a new environment or position that must be traversed by the individual with his free will".
Do you believe in free will?
Matthew Reed
Kayden Morales
If free will doesn't exist then god is a fucking scumbag for sending people to hell
Jason Hall
Does it really matter? How do you know your inner ""choice"" is what brought it about? time's linear fashion prohibits you from but experiencing one thing once. And when you look at a long string of decisions, can you really say you had any power over it? Is it not emotion and instinct that dictate the human the most, hidden behind a facade of consciousness?
>implying god exists
Camden Nguyen
Desire is the unwillingly made result of unwillingly being subjected to one's environment, thus free will can't exist, nor would it matter if it did. Every action is the result of some other action you faggot
Logan Jenkins
No, I'm a protestant so by default everything is either god's will or satan's fault
Jaxson Price
People who don't believe in free will are defeatists
who is a defeatist?
>a person who expects or is excessively ready to accept failure.
If you don't believe in free will, there must be something you are hiding, something probably really tragic happened to you. So you lose hope and optimism, that leads to nihilism.
nihilism, determinism, realism, people who don't believe in free will all go in the same category.
The formula is simple, don't give up. If you give up, you won't finish the hero's journey or whatever.
if you believe in a deity like jesus or something, you have 50% free will, not 100%. Hardcore Christians probably have 10% free will, they are so obsessed with religion, there is no moderation
and they try to convert others into the cult.
Jace Hall
>Every action is the result of some other action you faggot
every action is made by reason, a reason that is caused by a multitude of other reasons. The actions that are taken, or not, are the effect of those reasons. But will one choose to make action based on those reasons, or no? Each action does precipitate another action, but the question is what is the reason for the initial action in the first place?
Nolan Stewart
If determinism is right, free will is trivially wrong
If something quantum mechanics something inherent randomness (i.e. fullest possible description of a physical system and our universe is probabilistic) I'd argue there's still no free will.
Dice rolling and randomness deciding what you do gives you no more control than determinism.
Lucas Richardson
Something quantum something would also be your argument against the existence of virgin frustration. But many virgins claim to experience frustration anyway.
Free will vs determinism has nothing to do with theoretical physics my boi. Its a philosophical argument. If you scale out physics model bullshit, technically humans are so rare that they dont exist either.
Charles Bell
That definition is so unwieldy and poorly-written that it's almost unintelligible.