With all due respect, this thread is probably not for you because you came in too late.
Free will is the never ending cause and effect scenario(s) that one has the option of choosing. The present moment is a continuity of choice, which is an infinite string of options until dead.
It’s fine to say you did something of your own free will if it means you had a choice (nothing was constraining you), but having a choice does not mean your will is actually free since you are compelled to move in a direction that you feel is the better choice in your eyes, not the worst.
Note, there is a beginning and an end, for cause and effect yes? So then where’s the middle? You think you are caused? Have an effect then just die? Do we look like cells? Unconscious and not able to choose our purpose? The fact that we have options and cause and effect is observable should be enough to show you there is more at play than only that. Does a cell self destruct because they want to or do they function to keep the body alive? Do we self destruct or try to keep ourselves alive? I’ve seen both forms of self destruction in the case of humanity but not in cells. So then how can both exist if everything is managed by a system of cause and effect that isn’t open to any sort of freedom? Which freedom would bring new. How did we evolve otherwise if no freedom or diverse multiplicity within cause and effect itself?
I have said over and over that cause and effect doesn’t work when it comes to human choice. Nothing causes, so how can there be a direct effect?
I mean if that’s how you wish to live your life, being an effect of others cause than so be it but in my life, I control my emotions to the best of my ability and I am not merely an effect to everything else’s causing or effecting me. How? Understanding the role attachment plays to satisfaction or desire/instincts. Your argument for greater satisfaction is pointless due to satisfaction barely lasting a minute and if that’s the case that you argue for your own satisfaction then you meet the quota of a fool and I am not calling you it, I am pointing out what is there according to Plato. It’s only satisfying if you have attached yourself to an idea you defend. Attachment brings a bias, so how can you be clear in your thought, logically or reasonably rather, if biased toward an idea that is your own?
You are misunderstanding the meaning of “greater satisfaction.” You are telling me I’m wrong because I have an attachment toward my idea. So if someone makes a genuine discovery, they can’t be right because they’re biased?
Why would a ‘fool’ -have- to say something? For their own satisfaction right?
Your interpretation is incorrect because you have neglected to understand what he means by greater satisfaction.
That means my response now will easily trigger you into responding because you will want a satisfaction from that addressing me, right? So tell me Peacegirl, how can I predict you if I am just an effect of cause or cause of effect, I don’t need a free will to choose to respond to you directly? I can just observe and I am bound by a need to respond to you? So I’m curious how can I observe the system while being in the system? Does that mean a cell in our body can as well? How can I predict you by observing you and the system? It just happened? I didn’t choose freely?
Are you claiming I do this for satisfaction as well?
Of course.
I could think of a million things I could be doing with my time 100x more satisfying and a quarter of those are probably sexual lmao.
Obviously not because you would do those things.
Wisdom is necessary to evolve, not because I wish to spend my life in the dark, learning through pain.
Are you saying the only way we can gain wisdom is through war, crime,and poverty?
Your satisfaction argument makes it seem like wisdom or pain is just a play jump house, a mockery. Wisdom and it’s pursuit is no satisfying and easy task. No proof? What’s society? Why isn’t everyone doing philosophy actively then? If it’s such a satisfying thing to pursue? Why and how are our achievements built off of suffering then? Fruits of labor aren’t made with being satisfied nor hope alone. It’s easy to say or think this /after/ the fact.
Once again, you have completely misunderstood what he meant by this word. How can I even begin to explain this knowledge when you didn’t understand the first premise? Satisfaction does not mean pleasure or doing only those things that are easy to come by. A person may find greater satisfaction pursuing a difficult task that takes much sacrifice. You find greater satisfaction being here at this moment than being somewhere else, or you wouldn’t be here.
So there’s two or three possible choices or responses to me, I’ll let you figure those out on your own, they should be as clear as day.
That wasn’t the definition of freewill, that’s why/how it is.
My definition for free will being self determinism is fucked up?“1.
the power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate; the ability to act at one’s own discretion.”
That is not how the word “free will” is defined. Freedom of the will means that given the same exact circumstances, we CHDO (could have done otherwise), which is false.
A fate is only a fate by the choice of what one may value, whatever it may be that one picks. The only thing determinism has set in stone is genetics, which genetics aren’t the sole or even the main cause of personality and genes can also be altered by environment, which we can choose environment. How else did we breed the dog out of the wolf?
How we move about about this world is dependent on a combination of our genetics and environment. Environment plays a big role in how we interact with our world on a daily basis.
I’ll leave the thread, but not because you told me to, because arguing with logic bots is pointless.
I can tell you jumped into this thread without a shred of understanding as to what it’s about.