RE: Do you believe in free will?
March 11, 2012 at 12:54 pm
(This post was last modified: March 11, 2012 at 12:58 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
What was the mind doing without free will for the first three years? Is it possible that it was gathering intel and writing S.O.P.'s? We're born with the required equipment, but the OS doesn't seem to be complete at birth. What causes you to put those brakes on? What's doing the evaluating? That's the rub. It just sets it back another level which again seems to have programmed responses. I absolutely understand where you're coming from, we probably don't disagree as much as it would seem. For me, the concept of free will is a relic of a time when we knew very little about how our behavior and decisions arose. Now that we know a great deal more we're going to have to completely redefine free will or abandon the idea entirely for a much more accurate description eh?
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