(November 16, 2010 at 10:12 am)Chuck Wrote: No free will, our brains are extremely elaborate multichannel Rube Goldberg machines containing both preprogramed and programmable parts. The behavior of the machine is determined by the input, the preprograming, the programing, and the state of biological construction and repair of all its parts. The perception of freewill is part of the mechanism, but even that part is fundamentally deterministic. The entire machine is ultimately deterministic, although due to the nonlinear complexity of the mechanism and uncertainties surrounding the exact values of all relevent inputs, its behavior might seem difficult to predict.
I believe there is free will. And have never really bought into the whole philosophical discussion of it, perhaps due to a lack of interest or understanding. However that argument there is the most interesting and understandable way I've seen the argument for lack of free choice, put. Congratulations sir.
I still however had the choice to reply to you or not, and it's choices that I can make such as this one that lead me to believe in free choice. I guess you can theorize that it's just the illusion of free choice, yet we could theorize anything is just an illusion of itself, yet I choose, perhaps out of ignorance, to take things as they are, illusion or not and deal with life that way, makes it a fuck load simpler.
