We watched a colony of ants move. I knew they were moving because the ones going up the hill had eggs in their mouths, and the ones coming back down had nothing
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If there were no free will, the world would just be a really elaborate machine. What's the point of having a really elaborate machine without some unknown variable to interact with it?
It's not set up for failure, it's set up for unknowns. It's like any other experiment. You set up the apparatus, you take care of eliminating extra variables (ie: make ants orderly), and you see what happens to the unknown (humans).
I don't actually think this, of course, because I don't believe in God; but I think that a world without free will is a pointless world. There is no discovery in it for the creator, and creating really brilliant art has to have in it an element of discovery for the artist.
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I don't actually think this, of course, because I don't believe in God; but I think that a world without free will is a pointless world. There is no discovery in it for the creator, and creating really brilliant art has to have in it an element of discovery for the artist.
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