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Imperfectly Perfect
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: North Carolina
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I have a proposition for you, as proposed by my teacher in philosophy. It is in regard to free will.
Suppose that a wizard casts a spell on Thomas that makes him start to like tennis. Before having the spell cast on him, Thomas had never shown the slightest interest in tennis. Thomas starts watching a lot of tennis, organizing tennis-watching parties at his home, and writing letters to his favorite tennis stars. Though he used to go to the movies every week, he now tends to watch tennis instead. One Friday he meets some friends at a sports bar to watch a big tennis match. Do you think that Thomas watched the tennis match freely? Why or why not? The way I see it, four conditions must be met for free will: (1) You do Action A (2) Doing Action A is what you want and decide to do. (3) if you had decided to do Action B other than Action A, you would have succeeded in doing Action B. (4) if there a good reason for you to act otherwise than Action A, you would act otherwise than Action A. Before you accuse me of attempting to steal your ideas for a paper, I actually just finished it. My curiosity as to what others think of this bull**** is just heightened.
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