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In reply to the discussion: Do we have FREE WILL? [View all]Doodley
(10,234 posts)But how do you know you were free to make those decisions? You may think you were free, but were you? How do you know that you were not destined to make those decisions, even though you think you consciously made them? I suggest you want to believe you were free, but believing something, doesn't make it so.
Suppose I told you I created a computer program that had free will. It had decided that it wanted me to play different music on my laptop. It made a decision and something changed as a result. Would you want more evidence that the program actually had "free will?" I think you would. Suppose the program told me it has free will. Is that evidence?
Would you say the computer program has free will, or is it more likely a simulation or illusion of free will? And how do you know that your experience of "free will" isn't equally an illusion?