Comment on Is it weird that I have to resort the idea of "Determinism" to be able to move on?
Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You don’t need determinism for that. Our brains are absolutely fallible, no need and it doesn’t help to punk yourself over that.
But just as determinism can explain bad things happening, so can nondeterminism. We know statistically haw fast radioactive matter decay. But it’s impossible to know for a single atom, it could be within minutes, or it could be in a thousand years.
Some things are impossible to predict, and some things just happen by accident. Whether the universe made it happen one way or the other, doesn’t really matter.
What matters is that you have free will, and you can choose to cope the way that suits you best.
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
A Quantum Dice Roll is not what I consider free will…
Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Free will can exist because consciousness is an abstraction created by the brain similar to a virtual reality on a computer, where the laws of physics is what the brain builds upon, consciousness is a function of the brain, ans SELF consciousness is a layer above that, constructed by the functionality of the brain, that far exceed normal physical causality.
There’s a reason we have a feeling of free will, if free will didn’t exist, a sense of it would serve no purpose. So Occam’s razor indicates that we shouldn’t have that sense without it.
We can imagine a future far removed from our current state, fantasy and SciFi books are clear examples of that. How would that be possible without free will?
Free_Opinions@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
If we have free will, then who or what is making those decisions and where is it located?