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Originally Posted by MartialDev  Free will is incompatible with cause and effect. |
The question boils down to when you make a choice is the decision a predetermined outcome of previous circumstances or can no cause be attributed to the outcome?
I find either unfathomable. On one hand, I cannot imagine that the decisions I make are already predetermined ( no free will ). On the other hand, if something happens I would expect that it was a natural progression of previous circumstances.
If your software has a bug, it's because of how the code was written. If you fix it it's because you used the laws of cause and effect to do it. And you did it because you have evolved to do so. And that is all a result of the preconditions that were set when existence began.
But what set the preconditions at the time existence began? That thing would have to be outside of time and virtually not exist.
To me this question shows me there is a flaw in how I understand who "I" am and what exactly time, existence and cause and effect are.