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[โ€“] flerp@lemm.ee -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Choices are already limited... by our brains. Some people choose to stick objects up their urethra. Based on statistical probability, I would guess you do not. Does the fact that your brain limits you from making that choice mean your will is not free? You didn't choose which brain you would get. Or are you going to go stick something up there to prove how free you are?

[โ€“] Hammocks4All@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

Don't appreciate (i) your disgusting example and (ii) your attitude. Most of this is obviously amounting to different interpretations of "free will" and even "omnipotence." Ok, if it's free with no limitations, you win, buddy. If it's free will in the sense that, well, obviously, there are constraints, but it is precisely those constraints that give rise to different wants, desires, actions, and pursuits, and there is freedom to choose them, then ok, there might be free will. In any case, free will is vague and not precisely defined. Similarly, does omnipotence entail the ability of creating something outside of yourself? If no, then ok, the paradox stands. If not, then the paradox doesn't.