Re: My Basic Thought On Free Will
If something like the movie Groundhog's Day were to actually occur, it would answer the question.
The way it was portrayed in the movie, we do not have free will. That is, everyday every person was in the exact same places and wearing the same clothes etc... This means that these people, presented with the same universe made the same choices every time. Their actions were determined. And as a result it gave Bill Murray the ability to predict the (short-term) future.
If we truly do have free will, then each day people would be in slightly different positions at the beginning of the day, and the end of the day could end with quite different results.
The problem here is that if things end up so differently it could end up proving the other side of the coin. That being that we do not have free will because our actions are random.
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