Free will exists to the extent in which things can be explained. If one day, AIs become indistinguishable from human intelligence and neuroscience/psychology can tell us everything about how the brain works, the whole concept of free will will have been explained into oblivion.
And yet, people must believe in it. Or at least a society that does not fully embrace or cannot accept evolution and reason.
People must believe it because how well a person believes that he will do determines his motivation.
Further study: Why is this so? Is there a way to get around this? Getting over false beliefs.
People act as if they have free will, even those who do not believe so.
I believe in free will, but I know it does not exist.
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It’s a little like what Feynman said about the god of the gaps.
My answer to the god of the gaps is simple. God is a concept, a thought. If there were no sentient beings alive, it would not matter if he existed or not existed or whatever. In a way, our existence, the existence of our minds gives god the very possibility of existence and meaning.
I believe in god, but I know that god does not exist.
God is the conglomerate of everything and everything else combined for all time, personified. God is everything that you see with and that you see, and not see.
See my approach to bible/religious texts study.
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