Originally posted by The Thinker
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Then you're basically saying our thoughts would be totally random fluctuations and it would be a mere coincidence that they had any connection to the physical world or reality.
How is it possible for something to influence something else to influence it differently in the same exact situation?
This is the nature of free will. It has the ability to cause thoughts, to form intent. An influence may be attempting to make the will choose B, but the will chooses ~B. Again, that the nature of the faculty of free will. That's why I said influence doesn't determine an outcome.
You need this to be possible if LFW is to have any leg to stand on. But since you cannot choose your thoughts or the way something influences your thoughts, how can even that rescue LFW?
What the hell is this free will? You make no sense. What causes the free will?
You see, your engage in a false dichotomy that either the will must be caused or random. You're ignoring the possibility that the will can form a coherent intent.
Let me ask you this:
Does God have free will?
I made no assumption. The first premise of the kalam argument is a metaphysical claim, not a physical claim.
That makes no sense at all.
The choice to look at the menu was caused by antecedent physical processes in your brain. Your decision to order food was caused by antecedent physical processes in your brain. The choice to recall the taste of the Big Mac was caused by antecedent physical processes in your brain. The choice to recall the taste of pickles was caused by antecedent physical processes in your brain. And your ultimate choice on what to eat was caused by antecedent physical processes in your brain. This is what all the evidence shows. On a more logical, and not evidential level, you still have yet to logically demonstrate how one can "choose" their next thought. You've just asserted it.
Again, your assumption that all this is purely a product of the physical world means you've put yourself in a box and think that I'm somehow bound by it.
The faculty of free will is the very thing here that needs to be explained logically.
Then logically explain how LFW is coherent.
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