(July 15, 2016 at 7:16 am)Alex K Wrote:(July 15, 2016 at 7:15 am)RozKek Wrote: Every single decision, movement, thought and such of yours are causes by the interaction of neurons. Those neurons are made of particles and every particle is causal. Therefore how the neurons move or how they interact in the future are decided by causality not you.
So let's say your neurons interact in a way so you raise your arm. The reason your neurons interacted in that way to raise your arm was because of the surrounding particles (and further and further back) causing them to do so, they didn't interact that way because you decided to. Well.. it was your decision but why you decided to decide that wasn't your decision.
I wouldn't go so far to say that every particle is causal. Quantum randomness is a thing. It's not violating causality in the sense of changing the past, but not everything on the particle level follows as effect and cause.
This is true. However, free will and determinism are not really polar opposites. There's nothing about randomness which implies free will, either.
