RE: Do animals have free Will?
February 9, 2012 at 12:29 pm
(This post was last modified: February 9, 2012 at 12:39 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(February 9, 2012 at 12:24 pm)Shell B Wrote: Here's the problem. This argument is not subject to levels of free will. Either all animals have free will or they do not. Saying a crocodile is more controlled by his instinct than a human is a moot fucking point. More or less, it does not matter. If animals have free will, which they clearly do, the free will hoopla perpetuated by Christians flies out the window.
Nothing has free will. But humans have the capacity to misanalyze their actions into a instinctive and flawed framework they call freewill.
The mental framework of "freewill" is but one of the many instinctive, quesi-emergent mental frameworks we are wired to attempt to apply to create mental representations of the world suitable for making useful predictions of its behavior. They are all flawed for the purposes of making predictions accurate enough to easily survive checking by modern science, but were nontheless good enough to have offered vital evolutionary advantages in our evolutionary history.
