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Originally Posted by Shotsie
Silly? I don't think so, and neither did some of the greatest minds in human history: the Ancient Greek philosophers. Have you ever heard of the allegory of the cave? The truth about the world is that anything is possible. Think about the world, if you hadn't seen everything since birth and removed the strangeness of it all; it would appear to you for what it really is, a freakshow. The order in creation which you see is that which you alone have put there; existence has it's own order which no human mind can, or ever will figure out.
The universe is not a narrow thing, or a great machine that can be explained in a neat and orderly way; it is certainly not constrained by free will. How can choices be free, given that propositions about the future already have a truth value in the present?
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did you get a C in your intro to philosophy course that you took? The allegory of the cave has nothing to do with free will. Its used as a metaphor stating that maybe we shouldn't always trust our senses--which is not the same as 'anything is possible'.
Further, it is a philosophical question being asked or introduced in Plato's allegory. Just because some of 'the greatest minds in human history' asked some questions doesn't make what they said true or fact. It is just that, a question...