Free will is what creates the feeling of Self-Consciousness where a position which is actually a supposition is held, namely the sense that I exist as a separate entity who has free will. On the quantum level of mechanics there is the appearance of free will, but on the classical level of mechanics the appearance of free will is seen to be illusory. Even though the illusion is real to the sense of I am.accelafine wrote: ↑Sat Aug 24, 2024 11:33 pm Is there a conflict there? If all of our decisions are 'pre-determined' and there is no 'free will' then how can there ever be a point at which any decision is ever 'all decisions at once', with every possible decision 'branching off' to create an alternate 'world'?
(''Free will and moral responsibility, also called problem of moral responsibility, the problem of reconciling moral responsibility with the apparent fact that humans do not have free will because their actions are causally determined. It is an ancient and enduring philosophical puzzle.https://www.britannica.com/topic/free-w ... onsibility '')