Leibniz tried to reconcile determinism and free will. He used the metaphor of
"windowless individuals": we can not see the personality of another person -
unless we experience how a person acts and reacts, i.e. if we do not know the
personal history, there is no window where we can observe the character of
someone. In this sense the hard problem of consciousness appears to be a
problem but is in fact a solution of another problem: the combination of
determinism and free will. The actions of a person are determined, but it is
normally unknown to others by what influences. Because of this lack of
knowledge the actions seem to be undetermined, although they are not.Is this an
interesting idea or just nonsense? What do you think? -J.
-------- Original message --------From: Jochen Fromm <j...@cas-group.net> Date:
2/27/21 22:29 (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee
Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: [FRIAM] Subjective experience & free will 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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