I’m glad you introduced me to the term meta-wanting because it reminds me on an argument against free will.
Basically, you can go to a CD store (itunes now) and you can choose which CD you choose to buy because you prefer that CD. But you cannot prefer to prefer that CD. You simply prefer (1st order) that CD. You could try to raise the order of your preferences (an idea that had not occurred to me until now), but at the next highest order, your decision has already been made.
To me, that is the most convincing argument against free will that I’ve ever come across. Has anyone heard it before?
I want that my highest metawanting be this sentence.
This is my highest order of metawanting.
It was determine by me wanting it (so it wasn’t already made).
I’m joking. I don’t really want to want that my highest metawanting be wanting that my highest metawanting be wanting that my highest metawanting be wanting that.… haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. :-)
I’m glad you introduced me to the term meta-wanting because it reminds me on an argument against free will.
Basically, you can go to a CD store (itunes now) and you can choose which CD you choose to buy because you prefer that CD. But you cannot prefer to prefer that CD. You simply prefer (1st order) that CD. You could try to raise the order of your preferences (an idea that had not occurred to me until now), but at the next highest order, your decision has already been made.
To me, that is the most convincing argument against free will that I’ve ever come across. Has anyone heard it before?
I want that my highest metawanting be this sentence.
This is my highest order of metawanting.
It was determine by me wanting it (so it wasn’t already made).
I’m joking. I don’t really want to want that my highest metawanting be wanting that my highest metawanting be wanting that my highest metawanting be wanting that.… haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. :-)
Have you considered that the free will debate is vacuous, as, ironically, we have no choice but to act as if we had free will?
So, I made this post before I’d even read the sequences.