RE: Free will and humans
March 12, 2016 at 1:59 pm
(This post was last modified: March 12, 2016 at 2:00 pm by Jehanne.)
(March 12, 2016 at 10:33 am)pool the great Wrote: Yeah nice try, I already explained how that line of reasoning is bull.
Tell me this Jen, do you think a ball inside a fence have freedom of movement?
No, I don't; I think that the ball is governed by physical law alone. Do you believe that someone with Alzheimer's can "freely choose" to recall their childhood memories? Or, do you think that they are "choosing" to forget the names of their children and grandchildren, or, the fact that they even have children or grandchildren? Or, how about people who have stroke damage to the Broca area of the brain? Do you think that they are "choosing" not to utter intelligible speech? How about patients who have split-brain and whose left hand is fighting with their right over which dress to wear for the day? Were is "free will" for that person?
You claim that "free will" is the ability to make "Choice A" (go to the bathroom) or "Choice B" (watch television), and yet, if you had demetia, you may "choose" to walk outside naked; is such an act of your "free will"? Should such individuals be arrested and locked-up?
If you say that free will does not exist in a sick brain, what evidence can you produce that it exists in a healthy one? Or, are healthy brains simply the sum of a bunch of well-formed neural nets from a healthy, nourishing and loving childhood into a well-functioning and healthy adulthood where the individual is seen to be making rationale choices, because that is what healthy brains do?!
