(February 11, 2012 at 12:08 pm)Rhythm Wrote: when I take a look around me (at things which exist outside of my little thought experiment), it's very difficult to distinguish exactly what is doing the programming, and exactly what is exhibiting "free will" from what is not.
Compounded by the fact that it's not just this or that particular 'what' that is doing the programming, if any, but a whole spectrum of influences and experiences, thousands, over a lifetime. Each with its own impact, intensity, duration, etc. etc. It's an unpredictable and infinitely variable cocktail. With consequently just as unpredictable and infinitely variable effects.
