(March 12, 2016 at 9:16 am)pool the great Wrote: So let me get this straight, you're right because despite so many difficulties I can land my poop inside my toilet.
That's a very compelling argument Jen,I wonder how I'm going to refute this
What is a compelling argument is that there are many biological states that you do not have control over; when you are asleep, you do not have "free will" over your heart rate and/or your respiration. Those are things which your brain does for you, to keep you alive, and it accomplishes these autonomic tasks via the constant firing of neurons in your brain stem and throughout the various lobes in your brain. And, yet, you assert that you have "free will" to make certain choices and not others, an illusion which all of us share. However, if you would experience a lesion in your frontal lobes, your personality would be changed and your "free will" would be compromised; you would lose the ability to make sound, rational decisions. You would still be able to take tests, formulate algorithms, etc., but your decision-making ability would be changed, for the worse. Everyone around you would notice it, from your spouse to your parents to your friends to your co-workers; in fact, you may even lose your job, get arrested, go into bankruptcy, etc., all because you experienced a lesion via an accident, stroke, unintentional drug exposure, etc.
