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Most Humans Do NOT Have Completely Frree Will
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RE: Most Humans Do NOT Have Completely Frree Will
(April 16, 2016 at 11:03 pm)bennyboy Wrote:
(April 16, 2016 at 1:37 pm)RozKek Wrote: If we were 100% independent of everything else, everyone would be extremly happy, there would be no addictions etc.

I some have a bad definition of "will" in mind.  It seems they think "will" means "the Holy power of God to do whatever you want."  That's not right.  Will is the desire of the thinking agent to use its influence on the environment with a goal in mind.  Free will is the ability of that thinking agent to act without an external compulsion, i.e. that one isn't a marionette.

So in the case of drug use, a person has the desire to do a drug, and acts (or occasionally chooses not to) to procure and use it.  Freely.

Yes. I was just adressing 100% complete free will independent of any variables Tongue
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RE: Most Humans Do NOT Have Completely Frree Will - by RozKek - April 17, 2016 at 6:41 am

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