Comment on Those books are different from how I remembered…
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 months agoYou are either saying that you can predict where a fly is going to go when you set it free or you are saying that a fly has internal agency.
If the fly lacks agency, you would be able to predict its movement given a sufficiently accurate set of information.
If it has agency, you could not.
You missed the point while drawing your circular argument.
Take what you said and replace fly with human. Wait here I’ll do it for you:
If a human lacks agency, you would be able to predict its movement given a sufficiently accurate set of information.
If it has agency, you could not.
Now tell me how you will acquire a sufficiently accurate set of information about a human and its environment to test your hypothesis.
Now tell me how you will acquire a sufficiently accurate set of information about a human and its environment to test your hypothesis.
You can’t. That’s a significant problem of identifying the existence or absence of “Free Will”.
merc@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
It’s difficult to predict the path of a leaf floating in the wind, but I don’t think anybody would say a leaf has agency.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Orders of magnitude less difficult, as the leaf can’t glean your intent and respond accordingly.
merc@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Can you prove that?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That the movement of a leaf in the wind is less complex than the electro-chemical processes of a human brain?
With enough time and math, certainly.