Q&A: Follow-up to the question of free choice (I couldn’t post this in the previous thread..)
Follow-up to the question of free choice (I couldn’t post this in the previous thread..)
Question
We saw that there is no proof from intuition, because it is something that simply happens alongside the action, whether there was choice in the action or not.
Therefore, deciding on the basis of intuition that there is choice is simply assuming that the act you performed was in fact chosen, and as a result the intuition was correct.
The Rabbi will probably come back and say that just because intuition was mistaken when there was interference, that does not mean intuition is always mistaken.
But that is a mistake, because as I said, the reason intuition occurs is because of the electrical wave that causes the act, so in order to assume that intuition is true, you first have to assume that the act was done by choice.
Answer
By that logic, don’t believe your own eyes, because they mislead you in a mirage.
I didn’t understand this business about the electrical wave.
By the way, even if I answer your question and you become convinced, how do you know that conviction is reliable? That too is intuition.