(March 9, 2016 at 11:11 pm)pool the great Wrote:(March 9, 2016 at 11:06 pm)Jehanne Wrote: I noticed that you did not even reply to my posts, which means that your presence in this thread is at least insincere, if not outright disingenuous. Free will does not exist in human beings; this is absolutely clear in individuals who have schizophrenia, split-brain, temporal lobe epilepsy, Alzheimer's, dementia, aphasia, etc. If you had a stroke in the Broca's area of your brain, your ability to speak would be severly impaired, as well as your ability to understand speech. Such would not be a choice on your part, any more than your brain could choose to violate the Conservation of Energy.
Hi Jen.
If a human can form an algorithm then that human have free will.
Does these diseases hinder humans from forming an algorithm? Then they do not possess free will.
How do you know this? If someone has multiple personality disorder and cannot even control which "mind" is active in their brain at any given time, how can you say that such an individual has "free will". It's like saying that if a persona can add 2 + 2 and reach a conclusion of 4, then that person must have free will. Lots of animals, mammalian and reptile, form new algorithms all the time; even bacteria and virtues form new algorithms via natural selection. Are you saying that a virus has "free will"?
