MadPole: Freewilly! I was very excited
finding a "Freewill" section in your philosophy
section.
You see - I have this little problem. Cats,
to my limited knowledge, don't have any "Freewill"
or "freedom of choice" I, on the other hand,
am respectable human being, supplied with all
the faculties mentioned above. Cats laze about
all day doing nothing. For that, they get fed
and provided with free accommodation. I, on
the other hand, have to work my guts out in
order to provide myself with food and shelter.
So who the hell has got Freewill and freedom?
Me or the cat ?
Which brings us to the original question, answer
to which I would fully appreciate: what is "freedom"
and what is "Freewill". Please don't mention
god damn god in your reply because I don't see
any connection! My friend suggested that "responsibility"
is a price of freedom. But looking at the cats
I think this is other way around - it seems
to me that "luck of responsibility" is a price
of freedom, "responsibility" is the price one
has to pay for being a slave. And I happen to
be one of those people who prefers to be a cat
than be a slave at any day!
Jim responds: I think there is no determinism
- that is ruled out by the statistical nature
of Quantum Mechanics. Sorry, had to mention
QM this once. But that doesn't grant us Freewill
- our behaviour could be determined by the combination
of QM-caused randomness and mechanical responses
to that randomness.
Personally I am coming to believe that Freewill
is an illusion caused by our subconscious. Our
subconscious has already decided before we are
aware of even trying to make a decision consciously.
Experiments have proved that. Therefore neither
we, or a cat, has Freewill. All life is driven
by the subconscious mind (if it has one). In
the case of Humans, we are better able to delude
our selves that we are free than a cat. Therefore
a cat (or any animal) is wiser than us. Which,
perhaps is similar to what you are saying about
cats!
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