Ben_Jones comments on Explaining vs. Explaining Away - Less Wrong
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Ian C.,
I'm not deducing (potentially wrongly) from some internal observation that I have free will. The knowledge that I chose is not a conclusion, it is a memory.
To paraphrase/mangle Wittgenstein:
What would the memory have felt like if you only had the illusion of free will?
To be honest, I'm not convinced this is a useful argument. Does the existence (or otherwise) of 'free will' have any bearing on our ethics, our actions, or anything at all?