(November 25, 2021 at 2:54 pm)slartibartfast Wrote: Well my reasoning is in order to be able to have free will over something, you need to have a genuine choice.
An person with epilepsy can't choose to not have seizures about as much as a person without arms can't choose to play the violin. The fact that epilepsy is something that affects the mind rather than the body has absolutely no bearing on their ability to choose the outcome.
It seemed like you were conflating mental illness or disease of the brain with a mind's choice as opposed to it having a physical root cause.
What is the cause of the mind's choice:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_free_will
