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Originally Posted by Ian It's an oxymoron because non-conscious things simply follow physical laws or algorithms. |
I'm not talking about nonconscious things. I'm talking about humans. If we have free will, what law says that all the free decisions we make have to be conscious ones?
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Now, could you name an example of a non-conscious choice I might make?
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The one where you decide which way to turn at the intersection when you're in the middle of a conversation with someone else in the car.
Now, if you're going to define
choice and
decision to require conscious thought, and call all the nonconscious decisions something else, then of course you will win the argument. But then it will be the case that most of the decisions you make in life are not free.
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Both I and the boulder are simply behaving according to physical laws and it is inconsistent to say that I decide but the boulder doesn't.
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No, it's not. It's just a question of your definition of
decide.
~~ Paul