RE: Do animals have free Will?
February 9, 2012 at 4:47 pm
(This post was last modified: February 9, 2012 at 4:51 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Np, if that's your definition then a very large number of creatures on this planet have free will. If your definition hinges on levels of this ability that increase on a scale towards human beings before being classified as "free will", then yes, that's rigging the game.
Let me ask you this. In relation to a wolf, just how competent are you at hunting deer by making "decisions with reference to knowledge, motivations, thoughts and actions"? Is this game rigged in favor of the wolf?
Can you demonstrate that our own relative level or grade of "free will" is not "a necessary consequence of its(our) biology and conditioning"? If you're referring to relative ability (and our measure for that is our brains ability and stage of development) then I don't see how you could avoid marking down human beings as creatures that act according to a necessary consequence of our own biology and conditioning. Since that's exactly how we understand our brains to operate (by consequence of biology and conditioning)
Let me ask you this. In relation to a wolf, just how competent are you at hunting deer by making "decisions with reference to knowledge, motivations, thoughts and actions"? Is this game rigged in favor of the wolf?
Can you demonstrate that our own relative level or grade of "free will" is not "a necessary consequence of its(our) biology and conditioning"? If you're referring to relative ability (and our measure for that is our brains ability and stage of development) then I don't see how you could avoid marking down human beings as creatures that act according to a necessary consequence of our own biology and conditioning. Since that's exactly how we understand our brains to operate (by consequence of biology and conditioning)
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