Re: Two personal beliefs and their consequences
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Think about the thought experiment this way. Suppose you know with absolute certainty that premise 2 and premise 3 are true. Which is more likely to be true
A)I can act differently than the demon predicts.
or
B)My freewill prevents the demon from actually being able to predict the future give the constraints of this senario.
Stu
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If we knew with absolute certainty that premise 2 and 3 were true, I would say what is most likely to be false is the first part of premise 1. Premise one is divided in two parts:
The demon knows everything about the present and the past.
Therefore it must know everything about the future.
But I suppose you also postulate that I know the first part of statement one with absolute certainty, and your question is "what is more likely to be false: the second part of premise one or premise four". You see how you are just as well off just stating that it is intuitively true for you that you have free will, than to call this far fetched scenario a refutation of determinism?
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