(April 11, 2012 at 7:12 pm)Gooders1002 Wrote: I think we have Free will to an point like deciding between waffles and pancakes or should I walk or drive or should I go in holiday now or or later in the year, mostly choices that effect only us when no other factors are at play, but we don't then there are more people to consider or there is some barrier or factor we can not control. I think there are set points in history that must never change events that must happen no matter if there positive or negative but other then that we have free will(well to an extant).
I think you are simply describing when the factors at play are far more elusive.
Even in the big decisions, you are completely unaware of the real factors at play anyway, and most of your decision making process is more a rationalisation making process for those factors.
Let me ask, if when deciding whether to eat waffles or pancakes, the concept of one makes you salivate more than the other.
Was it free will to salivate more at the concept of one than the other?
You probably didn't "choose" to salivate more at the concept at all, any more than a reaction which will guide your rationalisation of the final decision.
Thats my take on things anyway
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If you’re going to watch tele, you should watch Scooby Doo. That show was so cool because every time there’s a church with a ghoul, or a ghost in a school. They looked beneath the mask and what was inside?
The f**king janitor or the dude who runs the waterslide. Throughout history every mystery. Ever solved has turned out to be. Not Magic. ― Tim Minchin, Storm