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