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Q&A: A Contradiction?

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A Contradiction?

Question

I remember that the Rabbi once answered me that there is an internal contradiction between God's knowledge of the future and human free choice. If God knows in advance what I will do, then I have no free choice.
In the meantime I came across an article by Moshe Rat, and I’m looking through it. So far I’ve gotten to this claim:
"In the same way, God's foreknowledge does not negate freedom of choice. One can say that God gave human beings the freedom to act however they wish, and then collected the 'recording' from the end of time, which describes all of human history, and watched it at the beginning of time — and thus knew in advance everything that human beings would freely choose.

What does the Rabbi think of this claim? Does it resolve the contradiction? (Assuming the Rabbi still holds the position that there is a contradiction in these things.)

Answer

In my opinion, there is a contradiction here, because of Newcomb's paradox.
See, for example, here:
https://mikyab.net/%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%AA/%D7%A9%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%94-%D7%9C%D7%A8%D7%91/

 

Discussion on Answer

Din Din (2018-04-05)

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