Question about the term choice
I must say I really enjoyed hearing you debate about free choice. Are there any future debates/podcasts planned on this?
And also a question about terminology: What is a “free” choice? Free versus what?
Aviv said that we have a choice, but not a free one. This concept is not understood at all. What is a choice in the view of determinism? Physical processes in the brain that are subject to the laws of nature, I cannot choose otherwise, just as water cannot flow from the bottom up.
So it seems to me that the term free choice is confusing, we need to ask: according to what is the action carried out? Is it by physical processes in the brain or by something else (soul) – is the feeling that we choose a fiction or not. And in the end it is dualism against determinism, so it is a matter of faith. In any case, it is very difficult for me to think that this world will be just, and will eventually lead to a person asking himself this question.
I don’t know. I guess not on the same topic.
Aviv holds a position called compatibilism, which believes that it is possible to talk about free choice even in a deterministic picture (if I choose without the articles “from outside”). In my opinion, it is just a play on words, as I explained in my book and in the article that summarizes it.
Dualism also does not necessarily mean that we have free will. There may be determinism of the spirit. But the opposite is true in my opinion: free will can probably only exist in a dualistic picture.
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