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Poll: What is "will" to you?
This poll is closed.
Radically free in the full blooded libertarian sense.
0%
0 0%
Free but inescapably (and thankfully) constrained.
17.65%
3 17.65%
Compulsory. Nothing gets willed unless I get off my lazy ass.
5.88%
1 5.88%
Free when not impeded by the will of another or circumstances beyond my feeble powers.
11.76%
2 11.76%
"Will" is an illusion of the mind, a concept believed by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
23.53%
4 23.53%
Will is epiphenomenal, a byproduct of useful processes of the brain.
23.53%
4 23.53%
Other please explain unless the repeated call to so causes nausea. Check with your doctor to see if your constitution is strong enough for this debate.
17.65%
3 17.65%
Total 17 vote(s) 100%
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Do Humans Have Compulsary Will? Which best describes your take on 'will'?
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RE: Do Humans Have Compulsary Will? Which best describes your take on 'will'?
(May 31, 2015 at 8:58 pm)bennyboy Wrote:  The question I'd have would be-- is there some kind of awareness of this light at that simple level, or is it simply a kind of gimpy mutant reflex?  I don't know the answer to this question.

And that's my speculation, that there will be cases where it is impossible to say that it is one or the other (even if this hypothetical may not be such a case).


(May 31, 2015 at 8:58 pm)bennyboy Wrote:  But though nobody yet has said it, my inability to imagine something isn't a good argument against it.

Since we're both just speculating, I'd say we're both venturing beliefs with little support.
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RE: Do Humans Have Compulsary Will? Which best describes your take on 'will'? - by Angrboda - June 1, 2015 at 8:32 am

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