it really annoys me that determinism means the concept of free will couldn't *not* exist, even if it's completely incoherent
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I say "if it's completely incoherent" versus "even though it's completely incoherent" because the concept of free will doesn't make any sense to me in the first place
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How do you have Christianity if you don't have free will? God cares about the robots as they slide along their fixed tracks?
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I don't know, honestly! but I still don't get free will. I don't get what it even means for a will to be free
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like if the universe is as deterministic as it seems to be, where's the free part? I think *choice* exists, decisions do, certainly. but what does it mean for them to be free — unconstrained? but then how would you choose? very puzzling
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I think "free will" merely means free to make choices. Who said unconstrained? I certainly will not move to China tomorrow, change my name, get a tattoo, get a divorce, etc. But I will make other choices. Christianity is built on assumptions of choices, between sin & virtue.
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