Category Archives: free will

If a plant could walk

If a plant could walk, would it have free will?

On Newcomb’s Problem

The Being’s prediction must be confined to my past actions, so if I have a habit of taking chances, then it is more likely that I will choose Box B. If I am conservative and normally play it safe, then it is more likely that I will choose boxes A and B. Is it more [...]

Absolute free will

Suppose there is a multiverse where all possible events occur. This seems to imply that there is a limit to the number of possible events. Yet, if there is such a limit, then our degrees of freedom would seem to be likewise limited, which precludes any notion of free will as unlimited.

Free will and choice

It seems to me that, for free will to exist, a single set of initial conditions would have to allow an infinite number of resulting event scenarios if the initial conditions were replayed. A finite number of resulting events would mean that your life is simply part of one possibility. It does not seem to [...]