I am reading a book about Leibniz and started to wonder if the hard problem of
consciousness could be the reason why we have the illusion of free will and can
not predict how others will act. From the outside a person seems to have free
will in principle. From the inside everybody feels something different and is
controlled by emotions based on subjective experience, which is unknown to
others, because the individual is not transparent and the history is not
known.Once we investigate the life of a person, for example by a detective as
part of a criminal investigation, or as movie viewers in a cinema, we start to
understand why a person acts they way it does. The more we step into the
footsteps of a person, the better we understand the feelings, goals and
motives.Could it be that the same thing which prevents us from understanding
the subjective experiences of others also creates the illusion of free will?-J.
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