[ExI] Humans losing freewill

[John Clark]

Dave Sill <sparge at gmail.com> wrote:

​>​
>  Unless someone holding a gun to your head and making you use technology,
> free will isn't at play.
>

​Even if somebody *is* holding a gun to your head and tells you to pick X
and not Y ​and you do indeed pick X you have done so because under those
circumstances you wanted to pick X.  Yes, if the circumstances were
different, like not having a gun to your head, you might have wanted to do
something else, but they weren't so you didn't.


William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com


> ​> ​
> What does technology have to do with free will?


​Nothing, and it's not just technology. Until somebody coherently explains
what ​"free will" means it has nothing to do with anything.

​I'm not asking for anything as ambitious as a proof the humans have (or
haven't) free will, I just want to know what the hell the term means.

John K Clark ​
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