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The intuition for choice

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asked 12 months ago

Hello Rabbi
 
Why do you think that the intuition of choice is just as basic as the intuition of causality?
We haven’t seen things happen without a reason, but we have seen people who are stubborn in their opinions, and every choice we make, if we think deeply, is influenced by an infinite number of things, so how basic is this intuition?
thanks

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מיכי Staff answered 12 months ago
I’m not talking about people, but about myself. I have an intuition that I have a choice. Sometimes, of course, there are actions that are not by choice, but in principle yes. Sometimes our vision also deceives us, but we don’t lose faith in our vision.

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דוד replied 12 months ago

Is your intuition as strong as causality? After all, causality is supposed to be really strong because we've never seen anything happen without a reason.

מיכי Staff replied 12 months ago

You have never seen anything happen for a reason. Causality is our interpretation of events, not an empirical finding.

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