Comment Re:Quake live? (Score 1) 27
only if accept libraries that are not GPL-compliant in your distro.
Even if I did choose to change something about my life, it would have no bearing on free will.
True but that's because the way you live is predicated on the belief that you make choices that matter. So your argument is ad logicam even though it has a valid conclusion.
The order is backwards. It would be better to say that even if free will were proven false, that would have no bearing on you living as if you have it.
The problem with free will is whether you have it or whether you don't it makes absolutely zero difference in your life (we're talking philosophical free will here, not material, so no one give me the snarky "I'm in jail you insensitive clod" response).
The person in jail lacks material freedom not free will -- unless you were insinuating that psychopathic behavior is causally determined.
Everyone makes decisions with the implicit belief that their decisions matter. Now, if we have free will, then they actually do. If we don't have free will, then they actually don't. Regardless, you make the same damn decision, and it will have the same consequences.
Yes, this is a restatement of Kant's argument that we posit the existence of our will (free) as a necessary correlate of practical reason.
So why the eternal wanking over whether or not we possess a property that cannot be measured and doesn't effect our lives in any way?
Agreed.
Good day to avoid cops. Crawl to work.
