I understand you're perspective and the point you're making. But what AsliSarmachar is trying to say is, and what i'd also say is that if it is possible for anyone to know what you're going to do than its not really free will.
If we resort to religion or magic than of course, there is no argument. we can argue about the logic of the statement but the problem is rather factual.
i'll try to break it down for you and hope you see my perspective as well
If for a moment we consider that the certain religion we're looking to for an answer to whether there is a free will, was made up by some illiterates in the desert roughly one and a half thousand years ago trying to put themselves above others and gaining political power.
Whether your person 'A' is gonna choose option 1 or 2 depends on his mentality.. not 'really' his choice. its an illusion of choice.. it all breaks down to several chemical reactions going on in his brain at that moment.. a brain which evolved through natural selection over millions, or even billions of years.. and ALL his life experiences that shaped his mentality EXACTLY that way.. from the creation of his brain to ALL the things, experiences, nutrition, diseases, disorders, genetical mutations and all other things that made his mind EXACTLY the way it would be at that moment which 'he' never had any control over, determines which choice he is going to make..
and yes we both know there is something stopping him from throwing the hammer at the monitor, wanna guess? the fact that he doesn't want to damage his monitor because he likes it and uses it and know it costs money to buy another one and knows that he's not a millionaire.. what really would be stopping him if he wasn't bothered by any external experience's influence? nothing. and he'd just throw it at it. but of course for that we'd need a situation that would make him think of doing that and the mentality that'd decide to do it. Again a mentality totally composed of physical things, all the elements that we can find right here on the earth influenced and shaped by events happening on the planet that precedes him.
because person 'A' or you or me are nothing more than random things happening in the universe ourselves. We have no more free will than the snow falling over a mountain or a rock rolling down the hill, even though we have more complicated and complex composition than those things and are influenced by an extraordinary number of events in very complex and different ways.
But I think that's what makes us very, very special.
Hope you catch my drift.
that makes us very special..
so what's the point of what u said that we are special?
you talk about mentality.. if some one is insane his actions are not judged
as i said actions are judged by intentions in the court of ALLAH,
only if a man is totally fit and sane and knows about his intentions will be judged upon them.
an insane man will have no intentions.. his intentions/brain is dead any way so his choices neither makes sense and neither are accountable.
Knowledge is some thing else and free will is some thing else.
in front of the display you have the free will to either crash it with a hammer or keep it clean and well with the best possible way
if u do bash it with a hammer the next uncertain moment or not
--GOD knew it before.. so he knows what you are and what you will really become after all your choices.. what does this has anything to bother you and your free will?
so u don't want him to know the results of your choices? so u don't wan't him to be the GOD?
--do what you want, u have free will.. only that GOD knows what will really happen as a result of your free will is not some thing you should be bothered before hand.. this is it, u can't change this fact that he knows the outcome of your choices.
you are free to do what you wan't but their is a reason he is the one and only GOD.
