RE: Good exists - a Catholic comments
August 21, 2023 at 6:34 pm
(This post was last modified: August 21, 2023 at 6:45 pm by Bucky Ball.)
There are two considerations about "free will".
In Medieval Moral Theology, "free will" was defined as the person involved being able to ) and actually holding in consciousness, ALL the major elements of the decision to act, involved.
That's been debunked. It's not what happens and not possible. Modern Neuro-science had proven that decisions are actually made a few seconds before we are conscious of them. There is a ton of research that proves that, I will post this evening. I have to get it.
The research shows that 95% of the input for the decision is subconscious, thus "free will" is meaningless. Your decisions are 95 % dependent on what has already been laid down in your brain / memory> .That doesn't mean you have *no* free Will. You could have had an inspiration or view something which made you think "this is important to me. I will start running every day". You are at least in part, free to make major long term changes.
In Medieval Moral Theology, "free will" was defined as the person involved being able to ) and actually holding in consciousness, ALL the major elements of the decision to act, involved.
That's been debunked. It's not what happens and not possible. Modern Neuro-science had proven that decisions are actually made a few seconds before we are conscious of them. There is a ton of research that proves that, I will post this evening. I have to get it.
The research shows that 95% of the input for the decision is subconscious, thus "free will" is meaningless. Your decisions are 95 % dependent on what has already been laid down in your brain / memory> .That doesn't mean you have *no* free Will. You could have had an inspiration or view something which made you think "this is important to me. I will start running every day". You are at least in part, free to make major long term changes.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell 
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