If everything were a subsequent cause following the First Cause, can free will exist?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Freewill exists, but is guided or influenced by anticipated consequences (i.e. drinking and driving or choosing a life partner).
"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."
- Rush, Freewill
chalupacabre
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July 21, 2018
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Would the ability to freely choose the response to said effect constitute,free will. In order for there to be a choice, is it not necessary to have a stimuli to respond to? Sort of a chicken or the egg dilemma. So while the initial action may be beyond your control, is your response predetermined, predicated by external factors, or open to your choice of action-response? Ay, there's the rub.
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