You have free will but the results of that free will are known beforehand, creating the illusion of no free will, imho.
“You have free will but the results of that free will are known beforehand, creating the illusion of no free will, imho.”
Of course I was talking about Provine’s and Dawkin’s (i.e., the atheistic materialist’s) opinions of free will, not Calvin’s. Which means I somewhat agree with you, except there is no illusion whatsoever.
Anyone who can think can discern that they have free will.
Yeah, yeah, I know... a Decartes trope. People lots smarter than I am have already beaten these subjects into the ground and beyond. It just kills me when little college skulls-full-of-mush think they’ve hit upon something brand new and earthshattering when they read some New Atheist declare something that has already been easily refuted 400 or 500 years ago. Or earlier, in the case of Epicureans versus the Hebrews.