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Free Will Conference 2024

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Good afternoon. I have corresponded with you in the past on the subject of free will. I watched a small portion of the lectures at the conference you attended this year earlier and I wanted to ask what you think of Prof. Amos Korchin's lecture, which says that free will is an illusion and gives the example of God hardening Pharaoh's heart in Egypt…and if Pharaoh were asked, he would have said that it was his free will, and therefore it is supposedly logical for him to believe that the feeling of free will is an illusion that is created in us in retrospect.
(He gave the example of Pharaoh in a lecture at the previous conference)
Thank you very much!


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Hello Michal. First of all, I'm not sure what Pharaoh would have said. There is an assumption here, of course. He assumes he had illusions and therefore interprets it this way. As for his claim, it's not an argument but a statement. I have nothing to do with statements. As far as I understand, each of us has a direct experience of free will. Therefore, in my opinion, whoever disputes this has the burden of proof on him. The debate over whether or not we have free will is conducted on several levels, and the question of whether our perception is an illusion or not is a result of this debate and not an argument within it. To show that this experience is an illusion, he had to show that there is no free will and then declare that this experience of ours is an illusion. But he did not show this and cannot show this. Anyone can declare statements. To the same extent I can declare that our vision is an illusion but in fact there is no world. So I said. By the way, even if someone were to show us that there are situations in which free will is an illusion, that would prove nothing either. There are also situations in which our vision deceives us (Petta Morgana). Is that why we assume that every time we see something it is an illusion?

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