How to have a conversation?
I’ve been self studying philosophy for a while now and absolutely love it. Recently I’ve been learning about Free Will and if we have it. I have many points that I love talking about and find wildly interesting. I wanted to talk to people about it but have run into a problem. Almost everyone I’ve had a conversation with does one of 2 things.
- They get stuck in a thought experiment and the actual question goes over their head
- They tell me that the question isn’t very interesting because it isn’t open ended enough?
For example I used the robot thought experiment. Basically a robot is programmed to believe it has free choice and consciousness. We know that it only believes it does and would most likely say that it’s just programmed to do so. The question is why should it be any different for humans? The problem is every time use an analogy or thought experiment it’s like the conversation gets stuck. A few people get stuck on, say, the robot. Talking about the differences between robots and humans or they just say that I’m framing it in a way that makes it impossible to question. I think maybe it’s just that I don’t explain it well enough for comprehension? I don’t want to blame them because I feel like if I was more capable at pushing a conversation this wouldn’t be a problem. Is there something that I can do to improve my conversational skills? Am I just not educated enough in this subject? I seriously love questions like these and I want to have challenges and conversations. What can I do?