Re: Fee Will or Deception or Guidance?
Let’s say I’m a computer programmer and I design a game where a timed algorithm is inserted in the action definition of a “sprite” that I have created. It will stop at junctures and activate the action code, to either choose right or left as it reaches a path that splits in two, and if it chooses the left it will come to a dead-end and if it chooses a right it will continue going on … Sprites will be coded to dislike dead-ends and like open ends and they will be able to learn from each other. As they leave a trail like a scent behind them. This in itself demonstrates that although the programmer has used the programming code to define the behaviour of the sprites - the incentive for sprites to gain reward is also hard-coded into them.
The path is pre-determined - the reward can be viewed as part of that pre-determined path.
Those who were pre-determined to do good were pre-determined to receive reward … It actually makes sense.
However, we hold that reward is linked to the decisions being made by the choices we make … it has nothing to do with whether our decisions are known or not.