Arcade-game characters have no free will. They're programmed to do one thing day in and day out - they don't have a choice in the matter.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm a video game fan, and I always thought it would be cool to be able to control a character.
I played mostly games like Asteroids and Pac-Man. Today, when I go into an arcade, the games are much more difficult and complex. I don't think I could even play some of the video games that are out there today.
Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.
When you play a videogame, you could be a completely different person than you are in the real world, certain aspects of the way your brain works can be leveraged for something you could never do in the real world.
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
There's a sense of fiction in every video game. It creates a world for itself that you want to obey.
God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.
When I put a quarter into an arcade machine or call up an emulated game on my computer, I do it to escape the world that is a slave to the time that makes things fall apart. I have never played these games to occupy my world.
When you play a character, there are choices you have to make about the past, the present, the future, etc. You have to make those choices on your own a lot.