Something is making decisions, is it not? And that thing that makes the decisions is part of what you would normally describe as “you.” Everything still adds up to normality.
It can can be detrimental, though, to communicate certain subsets of true things without additional context, or in a way that is likely to be misinterpreted by the audience. Communicating truth (or at least not lying) is more about the content that actually ends up in people’s heads than it is about the content of the communication itself.
I also sleep and my heart beats, but “I” don’t get to decide those things, whereas free will implies “I” get to make day-to-day decisions.
I don’t think I’m 100% following with the second-to-last sentence. Are you saying it’s detrimental to disregard the debate of whether we have free will?
The chain of causality that makes your heart beat mostly goes outside your consciousness. (Not perfectly, for example if you start thinking about something scary and as a consequence your heart starts beating faster, then your thought did have an impact. But you are not doing it on purpose.)
The chain of causality that determines your day-to-day decisions goes through your consciousness. I think that makes the perceived difference.
That doesn’t change the fact that your consciousness is ultimately implemented on atoms which follow the laws of physics.
Something is making decisions, is it not? And that thing that makes the decisions is part of what you would normally describe as “you.” Everything still adds up to normality.
It can can be detrimental, though, to communicate certain subsets of true things without additional context, or in a way that is likely to be misinterpreted by the audience. Communicating truth (or at least not lying) is more about the content that actually ends up in people’s heads than it is about the content of the communication itself.
I also sleep and my heart beats, but “I” don’t get to decide those things, whereas free will implies “I” get to make day-to-day decisions.
I don’t think I’m 100% following with the second-to-last sentence. Are you saying it’s detrimental to disregard the debate of whether we have free will?
The chain of causality that makes your heart beat mostly goes outside your consciousness. (Not perfectly, for example if you start thinking about something scary and as a consequence your heart starts beating faster, then your thought did have an impact. But you are not doing it on purpose.)
The chain of causality that determines your day-to-day decisions goes through your consciousness. I think that makes the perceived difference.
That doesn’t change the fact that your consciousness is ultimately implemented on atoms which follow the laws of physics.