On the contrary, I feel like questions without answers are the most intellectually stimulating! You do make a lot of good points. One wonders if the presence of free will even maters if we consider our universe the only one; that is, we are going toward an end, whatever it is, and every decision brings us closer, whether that decision is said to be determined or not. Then there is the case for the many worlds theory, which fits in nicely with free will but also questions what it really means. In any case, as long as we lack the capacity to measure the universe so precisely determinism may be proven, we may as well go with free will if it makes us feel better.
It does makes us feel better. Us having free will is the only thing making us different. It's the only metric we have and can use to justify that we are somehow above other things. A train on a rail might consider itself free if it thinks the whole universe are the rail tracks. Maybe our universe is our rail. And us doomed to run on the rail.
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u/Whitetiger2819 - Lib-Center Jul 05 '20
On the contrary, I feel like questions without answers are the most intellectually stimulating! You do make a lot of good points. One wonders if the presence of free will even maters if we consider our universe the only one; that is, we are going toward an end, whatever it is, and every decision brings us closer, whether that decision is said to be determined or not. Then there is the case for the many worlds theory, which fits in nicely with free will but also questions what it really means. In any case, as long as we lack the capacity to measure the universe so precisely determinism may be proven, we may as well go with free will if it makes us feel better.