Quote:(November 6, 2011 at 10:33 pm)IATIA Wrote:(November 6, 2011 at 9:31 pm)Greatest I am Wrote: Free will is simply the ability to choose from given choices on the menu. So to speak. If you are given a choice between a or b or c, without any coercion attached to any of them, and if you can choose and get either of them, then you have free will.
To make that choice requires a thought.
True.
Quote: This thought is generated by the biochemical processes of the body.
Part of the body. The brain. True.
Quote: The body makes the choice, not the will.
Will is generated by brain and this will leads to choosing. Brain must know there is a choice to be made before generating the will to choose.
I made an offer above. Your brain and consciousness processed the information, decided you could choose to accept it or not and chose not to and exercised your will by ignoring it. Right?
Quote: Our consciousness rationalizes this action and convinces us that we made a choice.
Free Will
The choice has to be made before any analytical rationalizing takes place showing that you exercised your free will.
Regards
DL

