(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.
The Conservation of Energy strongly argues against the notion of free will:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dualism_%2...om_physics
Anytime that you "choose" to do something (say, drink Coke versus a Pepsi), neurons in your brain fire; what causes those neurons to fire? Answer: other neurons. Some will say that quantum uncertainty will lead to indeterminism, which will lead to "free will"; however, QED phenomenon do not typically occur on a macroscopic or "classical" scale. The brain is likely governed more by biology and chemistry than it is by physics, however, the Conservation of Energy underlies all of reality.
Take the rotation of the Earth; it's hard to notice the fact that you are going around and around in a circle at nearly 2,000 kph near the equator to near 0 kph very close to the poles, and yet, every molecule in your brain, your body, your house and computer, the oceans and air, trillions upon trillions of molecules all conserve energy in the form of angular momentum. Of course, what is true of your body and surroundings must also be true of your brain, which means that you have no "free will". Your "choice" is just an illusion, the end product of trillions upon trillions of neurons that have fired in your head over the course of your lifetime.
