Philosophy

This is a hypothetical bet. I perfectly know that there’s no method to test if there is a free will or not. But let’s ignore that fact for a moment.

Do you think there’s a free will? If you had to bet on your opinion, how would your bet look like?

If I was asked to make a bet, I would definitely bet on the existence of a free will, although I can’t be sure whether it exists.

But why is that? Am I some crazy gambler or am I just stupid? Well I’m not sure about those two points but I got some good reasons to bet on the existence of a free will.
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How would life be like, if there was no such thing as death? If noone died, no matter what happened. Wouldn’t that be great? Well, we’ll see…

Noone can die.

But people can still get hurt. And they never recover from some diseases. So they collect all possible diseases and injuries during their eternal lifes. Sooner or later they all loose their senses and just live because there’s no way to die. Totally malformed beings as the result of car crashes, brawls, bacteria etc. Unable to walk, speak or see. Human trash labeled as living.

Only young, careful or lucky people look like normal human beings. Sounds horrible, right?

Alright, let’s make some additional assumptions:
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I’m not a big fan of boring introductions, so let’s just start.

What can we say about free will? What can we really know about it?

The concept of a completely free will is completely unrealistic. There are just too many influences and restrictions:

• Biological influences: Our genes form the blueprint of our body. Without genes, we would have no body and therefore no brain to make decisions with. You don’t even have to take it to the extreme. Take being tall as an example. It can certainly give you some additional possibilities or at least have an effect on your decisions.
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This theory is crazy. So be prepared. Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about reality, perception and models of the world. One thought lead to the other and suddendly I found myself thinking about this really obscure idea:

Could I possibly be a brain, wired to another brain, the “antibrain”?

Like two computers. Linked together. Think of it as two computers sending information to each other. The antibrain and me, both of us are computers. I play the role of the user and send data to the antibrain, which runs a world simulation. The user interface could be something like synapses of my brain. It doesn’t even need to be something like synapses, as the antibrain creates everything I consider to be real and I can’t perceive anything else. I could be a mere sophisticated computer as well, still thinking that I’m a human being. God is the allmighty programmer who hopefully pays the bills for my power supply.
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