(August 29, 2023 at 11:20 am)FrustratedFool Wrote:(August 29, 2023 at 11:17 am)ShinyCrystals Wrote: I think free will is just another means for God, or at least the people believing in God, to get a hold of people and, say, brainwash them into following religion. With how the human mind works, brainwashing can be easy to do to humans. Still, we are not unlike animals, and with that, we may seem to be different; and we may have some differences mentally altogether, but not to the point of having actual free will, which is an illusion in the end, is it not?
What does God mean in the first part of that paragraph?
If you mean that people are generally easy to manipulate, especially given their psychological predispositions, then I agree. We are.
Yeah, pretty much. God does not at all exist, and is only a figment of the mind, a psychological need, as I have said.
The problem with physics being the actual thing behind the mind instead of free will (and this is by no means saying the physics part is wrong) is that physics is very complicated. Therefore, the physics behind how the mind works as you described earlier, can be complicated, too. Now, that would make something like people believing in free will easier.
That does not mean the free will part is right, though, as you may know.
