(June 14, 2018 at 3:39 am)pocaracas Wrote:(June 13, 2018 at 5:50 pm)KittyAnn Wrote: while I have a choice ... then yes i have my free will ..
but if I lose this opportunity, I'll be slaved by drugs or another person who won't allow me to make a conscious decision, then yes my free will is limited and I can even say that I lost it..
Is your will truly free?
Are your choices free?
Given the exact same setting for some situation in your life (which I know is impossible, but hypothetically speaking) would you ever come to a choice different than the one you've made?
If you add some technology to you, it will influence your decisions, of course.
If I didn't wear glasses, my eyesight would be poor and I wouldn't choose to ride my bicycle as fast as I do, for example, out of fear of missing some obstacle.
What you want is for those decisions to not be made by the technology... but is there a difference?
Yes, my will is free ... and my choices are free
That it can be good or bad choice is another story
Of course, the world is so built that we have certain limitations if we want to live in a civilized society ... but we still have free will and we choose ... we want or not
Another fairy tale is that we are either strong enough that we don't give up on it or weak enough to surrender it ... but our will is still free.
What we do with it is our business ...
I wouldn't want this computer to make a decision for me, although probably based on the algorithms it would be better decisions than I'd have taken ... but it's better to think that it's me, not the machine, right?
...and speaking about my choice in the past yes i could do different choice and sometimes i regret it...but i was to weak to do it ..but also it was my decision not machine ...so now it is as it is.. c'est la vie!
"Alone is what I have. Alone protects me."
“I may be on the side of the angels but don’t think for one second that I am one of them.”
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day."
“I may be on the side of the angels but don’t think for one second that I am one of them.”
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day."
