RE: Most Humans Do NOT Have Completely Frree Will
April 14, 2016 at 7:41 pm
(This post was last modified: April 14, 2016 at 7:42 pm by bennyboy.)
I'd put it this way: three people are in a candy aisle. Will they all choose the same candy? No. Each will choose according to his nature and his condition at the time-- he will choose the candy that is best for him, or possibly even decide that it's best not to choose any candy at all. That's free will.
The free will argued against in this thread is a deliberately pointless one: that we should be free from our own nature, or else we are "compelled" by our brain, by our hormones, by our knowledge, etc. But those things are all OF the self, and asking that personal agency be separate from them is really to demand that agency be separated from the mechanism of agency.
The free will argued against in this thread is a deliberately pointless one: that we should be free from our own nature, or else we are "compelled" by our brain, by our hormones, by our knowledge, etc. But those things are all OF the self, and asking that personal agency be separate from them is really to demand that agency be separated from the mechanism of agency.
