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Originally Posted by David Clearly, people like Ian and I want 'free will' to mean essentially what 99% of humanity mean by this phrase. By that understanding, nothing that is equivalent to a mechanism can possess free will. Your materialist viewpoint means that you think it is appropriate to subtly change the meaning of free will - OK, fine, but why not admit that, and use a different term - pseudo-free will (PFW). |
Come on David, this is nonsense. First of all, you have no idea what 99% of humanity pictures when they think of free will. Secondly, I'm not trying to change the meaning of the term. There already are a spectrum of meanings: libertarian free will, incompatibilist free will, compatibilist free will. I've been very careful to try to get you to specify which one you are talking about.
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Originally Posted by Chris Can 99% of humanity clearly define what they mean when they say "free will"? |
Witness this conversation.
~~ Paul