Recent content by GratefulPoke

Its songs like that which make this southpark episode so, so good.

The argument is not simple and I don't think you are doing justice to your own position. There is a difference between linking stuff and regurgitating information and formulating your own opinion and arguments. We know you know how to do the former, it is the latter I have not seen. The latter...

I am not interested in an AI copy pasta and could not care less what AI has to say on the topic. You have a position, you make the argument to support it. Don't outsource your thinking to social media or AI. Make the argument yourself.

I disagree with this summary. You continued to make claims without supporting evidence. I am already familiar with free will as a concept. What I haven't seen is you provide supporting documentation and build an argument to support your initial point. Instead, you made additional claims and...

This is much clearer than what I was trying to convey.

I mean, aren't you arguing that God created us and gave us free will? Does it not strike you as ironic considering we had no choice in the matter?

Again, therefore "free will" doesn't exist as human beings are unable to make decisions without being constrained by external forces. All choices have some level of constraint and either historical, biological, genetic, environmental influence, etc. There is no tabula rasa necessary for the...

Things got strange when the multi dimension red herring got thrown out there. I should have left it be haha.

Free will is not about consequences. It is about decision making and agency. All one needs to disrupt a "free will" narrative would be an element of coercion, a lack of information, or an autonomous human response. Do babies "choose" to wet their diaper, or have they not developed the ability to...

This seems like circular logic to me. What dimensions does free will exist in and how does it exist in those spaces? There are a lot of Christian denominations that reject free will, so it is not even a universal claim inside of the faith.

Ok, what is that lens? A nebulous statement about multiple dimensions muddies the water. What dimensions/concepts about dimensions support the argument that there is in fact "free will" and an all powerful deity? Free will is like free markets, both are theoretical concepts that do not actually...

I don't see how your argument supports the truth claim "humans have free will". How does multiple dimensions reduce the contradiction between two assertions that we can demonstrate to be in opposition based on the available evidence? Adding additional unsupported claims into the mix does not...

I don't think there is any evidence "free will" exists. Generally those that argue in support of free will are conflating it with choice, which is not the same thing whatsoever. Almost everything is a product of a collection of previous causes and effects. The choices we make are downstream of...