RE: Free Will - Yes/No?
May 8, 2016 at 9:12 am
(This post was last modified: May 8, 2016 at 9:16 am by Excited Penguin.)
(May 8, 2016 at 8:52 am)Irrational Wrote:(May 8, 2016 at 8:28 am)Excited Penguin Wrote: You don't think you're forced to either participate or not at any given moment by processes in your brain that you couldn't possibly control? Not to mention, if your internet connection was suddenly lost, or something similar happened, that too would be outside of your control and you'd be forced to stop participating in the thread, whether you wanted to or not.
Yeah, but he said that free will is on a spectrum. You may not have complete control over anything due to external factors, but putting those factors aside, continuing to post here becomes a matter of you desiring to do so. No one else is forcing you to post or not post here in such a scenario.
In that case, he's defining free will as something it's not. Maybe a dictionary would help.
But other people are part of your environment as well. No matter how you look at it, you don't have any more power over your brain function than over your environment. The idea that you do is a complete illusion and it doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
