Sure you made a choice but the constituents for making it were not yours. If a computer prints something you wrote it doesn't mean the computer wrote it.
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Sure you made a choice but the constituents for making it were not yours. If a computer prints something you wrote it doesn't mean the computer wrote it.
true, but the computer didn't have the free will to "choose" wether or not to print it .... that is where free will comes into play... it is the free will to decide wether or not to act.... but lets not fool ourselves into thinking we humans are alone in having free will, but we are alone in having the intelligence to know why we are making those choices.. An ape may choose to eat one fruit over another, but it does not necessarily know why it makes that choice....we humans not only know why we made the choice we have the ability to explain why we made the choice.... which is in a nutshell what free choice is, making a decision or choice, and knowing why we made that choice, regardless of consequence... it is like a theif who steals, he knows it is wrong, that it is against the law and that there are negative consequences to stealing...but he chooses to steal anyways. If our free will is predetermined as you believe, then there is no choice there is only reactions...which would also mean there is nothing out of sequence, or out of balance, that everything in the universe is already mapped out and that every action and reaction is already accounted for. If this were so then we would have the ability to stop crime before it begins...oh, but then that would also be a reaction and already planned out as it was preordained in your theory... Do you realize how rediculous that sounds?? by making the assumption that free will doesn't exist you are saying that we allow suicide bombings happen on purpose because it was already preordained... or that planes crash because it was meant to be... i'm sorry, but there are more instances that support free will than support preordainment...
Actually the computer (us) is programmed to print specific things at specific times....
the computer(machine) does nothing unless it is given imput from(us, the human being with free will and choice)to do a certain task.. whereas (us)the human being makes choices without having to to be given imput or be told to make a choice.... I know, it is hard for you to admit you are wrong, that my friend is the free will telling you that despite the evidence, you are still going to use your free will and ignore the imput and make your own decision....
The input comes from the environment. The choices a human makes are as free as a program choosing to print between RGB or CMYK color palettes. aka they are limited depending on what the environment provides. Sure the computer does have a choice, a limited one, but that set of choices does not belong or count as free will for the computer.