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Most Humans Do NOT Have Completely Frree Will

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Most Humans Do NOT Have Completely Frree Will
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RE: Most Humans Do NOT Have Completely Frree Will
April 16, 2016 at 11:03 pm (This post was last modified: April 16, 2016 at 11:04 pm by bennyboy.)
(April 16, 2016 at 1:37 pm)RozKek Wrote:
(April 14, 2016 at 12:02 am)pool the great Wrote: I'm curious, if you think we have no free will, how would a world where we have free will look like?

If we were 100% independent of everything else, everyone would be extremly happy, there would be no addictions etc.

I some have a bad definition of "will" in mind.  It seems they think "will" means "the Holy power of God to do whatever you want."  That's not right.  Will is the desire of the thinking agent to use its influence on the environment with a goal in mind.  Free will is the ability of that thinking agent to act without an external compulsion, i.e. that one isn't a marionette.

So in the case of drug use, a person has the desire to do a drug, and acts (or occasionally chooses not to) to procure and use it. Freely.
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RE: Most Humans Do NOT Have Completely Frree Will - by deleteduser12345 - April 16, 2016 at 1:37 pm
RE: Most Humans Do NOT Have Completely Frree Will - by deleteduser12345 - April 17, 2016 at 6:55 am
RE: Most Humans Do NOT Have Completely Frree Will - by bennyboy - April 16, 2016 at 11:03 pm
RE: Most Humans Do NOT Have Completely Frree Will - by deleteduser12345 - April 17, 2016 at 6:41 am

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