RE: Worthy of worship, free will?
October 7, 2015 at 10:25 pm
(This post was last modified: October 7, 2015 at 10:28 pm by Reforged.)
(October 7, 2015 at 10:10 pm)Little lunch Wrote:(October 7, 2015 at 9:42 pm)RaphielDrake Wrote: Free will is an illusion. The human brain makes decisions three seconds before we are consciously aware of it.
Our consciousness is forever playing a game of catch-up it will never win. We will never know the full motivations behind our decisions because there are too many factors to be conscious of. Our minds weave a narrative to maintain the illusion of conscious control.
It's almost like your saying that sub-consciousness has free-will.
My idea of free will is that someone could take you back in time, reset your mind to that point and you might do something different.
I think the sub-conscious mind is even more incapable of randomness then our conscious minds.
We're animals being followed around by a confused narrator.
Its possible you would change your mind if some tiny detail was different but you would not be aware of everything that went into that decision making process. Your brain would come to the decision based on the complex calculus of the countless factors, big and small, that its been exposed to. Three seconds later you would justify it to yourself as a decision you just came to with whatever glaringly obvious factors that happen to be right infront of you at the time.
"That is not dead which can eternal lie and with strange aeons even death may die."
- Abdul Alhazred.
- Abdul Alhazred.