(March 7, 2016 at 3:43 am)pool the great Wrote: In your opinion do you feel that humans possesses free will? What is your opinion on the matter?
It is my opinion that humans does possess free will, so I will be arguing for it. I feel that I do poses free will as I am capable of deciding what I'm going to do in the very next minute. If I didn't poses free will then I should've been incapable of deciding what I'm going to do even in the next second. Thus as I have a control over my actions I have free will.
It depends on what you mean by free will. We have desires and we are able to act on them. If that's all you mean, then of course we have free will. However, the majority of people mean something more by free will - especially in a religious context.
The usual understanding of it - and I say this based on asking people questions that make them explain further what they mean, as well as on what many religious (and even nonreligious) people say in general - is that free will involves the ability to choose from among more than one possible way of acting. So for instance, at the moment you decided to write your post, if there is such a thing as free will, then - everything else being equal - you could have decided not to write it. This is what is called "libertarian free will," by the way.
IMO, there is no such thing as libertarian free will, for a very simple reason: the very concept of it is incoherent.
