I find it easier to think of the lack of free will in this way.
Every decision you make is based on who you are and how you handle things (personality) and the world around you (environment).
When you were born you had no part in choosing either of these.
Everything you do is a reaction.
To believe in free will is to believe that if you could go back into the past, it would not be like a rewind button as some people would do different things for no reason.
Personally, I believe that my sub-conscious is me. Just because it's in action ten seconds before I consciously make a decision doesn't mean that it wasn't thinking like I think I would think.
I make more one second decisions then I can count in a day.
That includes emotions.
It doesn't take me ten seconds to decide whether I'm happy, sad or angry about something.
Every decision you make is based on who you are and how you handle things (personality) and the world around you (environment).
When you were born you had no part in choosing either of these.
Everything you do is a reaction.
To believe in free will is to believe that if you could go back into the past, it would not be like a rewind button as some people would do different things for no reason.
Personally, I believe that my sub-conscious is me. Just because it's in action ten seconds before I consciously make a decision doesn't mean that it wasn't thinking like I think I would think.
I make more one second decisions then I can count in a day.
That includes emotions.
It doesn't take me ten seconds to decide whether I'm happy, sad or angry about something.
