RE: Free will and humans
March 16, 2016 at 6:25 pm
(This post was last modified: March 16, 2016 at 6:26 pm by IATIA.)
(March 16, 2016 at 3:55 pm)truth_seeker Wrote:(March 16, 2016 at 11:36 am)IATIA Wrote: A bio-chemical reaction will precede a thought or action. How would free will initiate this condition if the condition is required first?
Well, it will precede a thought/action if you believe in determinism.
If you're going for free will, then the chemistry follows after your thought/action.
But free will is a thought, a decision that must be initiated. Are you suggesting qualia has a life of it's own separate from the body or that there is a supernatural explanation?
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God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
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