(October 22, 2019 at 3:00 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Bullshit. There is not autonomous "we". "We" can not be motivated to do something for no other reason than because we want to do it. We "only" want to do it for "no other reason" because a whole series of deeper reasons motivated us to do it, while another series of deeper reasons which may or may not overlap with the first series denied us the perceptual or cognitive recognition of these deeper reasons.
If you say God can do just because he wants, you are in effect saying your notional god is as both shallow and delusional as you are, and exhibit every indication of being ignorant of, or complete fooled by, great many things more profound than it, and you are so stupid you would believe without question what such a delusional and ignorant god is said to have told you.
Whether or not we are autonomous plays no role in many actions being internally generated. Take for example the ingestive behavior of drinking; it is often motivated by the sensation of thirst. This sensation can arise when the brain detects a drop in the volume of blood plasma. The brain does its thing, and you (autonomous or not) go drink to correct the volume discrepancy. The entirety of this behavior is internally generated within the organism.
