Such a being would, to my knowledge, necessarily exist outside a closed system (being our universe) because of things like frustraters and other logical and natural phenomena. As such, a consciousness inside the system would still retain full free will.
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Such a consciousness would have free will of course, and would have knowledge of everything else. Such a consciousness could even restrict our own.
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You misunderstand. I'm saying that this being could only posses all knowledge within a given closed system. By directly intervening, it would lose its ability to posses total knowledge of the system and would have to exist outside of it. Any consciousness (such as a human) would retain full free will.
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Bearbeitet von Faust IXV: 12/15/2015 10:38:34 PMWhy would such a being need to be in a closed system? Also you misunderstand the purpose of the demon. It's used as a device to explain the concept of there being no true free will.
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The being would need to be outside of a closed system, not inside.
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Ah ok. He states in his theory that he would be outside of it anyways.
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Thus he couldn't interact, and beings inside the system, such as humans, would retain full free will.
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Again, don't subscribe to the demon itself too much but as to what it represents. It is a device to explain the concept that there is no free will. Everything has properties. All things interact based on those properties. Therefore the future is set.
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The future is only set if you look at it from outside the system. Within the system, that is entirely meaningless.
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I agree it is meaningless. But that doesn't take away that it is still true. While this idea came much later, Zeno founded his ethical philosophy on much similar grounds