@Frank Apisa,
Quote:Your hypothetical is not especially reasonable.
True, Frank, and of course impossible to replicate. However, (as I might have asserted but much earlier) in almost any sort of simple physics experiment we can't help noting that the more carefully the variables are controlled the more likely the same outcome
On the other hand (again forgive repetition), the more variables the less likely. So maybe if the number of variables is infinite the likelihood is zero, so
Quote:Free will MAY exist…....in your experiment if you pushed the play button not every grain of sand would land in the same spot……....
Bringing up the notion that without animal life to exercise that will, all those grains would land in the same places. However this idea is dualistic inasmuch as there's no dividing line between the living and the non-living. This in turn suggests that even a grain of dirt has a certain amount of free will
I still maintain however that the apparent impasse between free will and determinism is not one of physics but of semantics, as suggested by the difficulty of defining the former. In any case though we almost have to assume we're free at least to some extent because otherwise life takes on a kind of meaninglessness, hopelessness
Quote:You can read "The Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury on-line. It covers this sort of issue in a unique way.
Thank you Frank for that link
