Kip, the problem word is simply before. Your destiny is fixed, but it is not fixed before you were born. If you look at it timelessly, the whole thing just exists; if you do look at it timefully, then of course the future comes after the present, not before it, and is caused by your decisions.
Your destiny is fixed, but it is not fixed before you were born.
if you do look at it timefully, then of course the future comes after the present, not before it, and is caused by your decisions
Determinism doesnt allow any special status for the complex physical events known as decisions. So it doesn’t support folk intutions that human choices are making a real difference.
Kip, the problem word is simply before. Your destiny is fixed, but it is not fixed before you were born. If you look at it timelessly, the whole thing just exists; if you do look at it timefully, then of course the future comes after the present, not before it, and is caused by your decisions.
Determinism doesnt allow any special status for the complex physical events known as decisions. So it doesn’t support folk intutions that human choices are making a real difference.