RE: Do you believe in free will?
March 11, 2012 at 1:49 pm
(This post was last modified: March 11, 2012 at 1:54 pm by NoMoreFaith.)
(March 11, 2012 at 1:09 pm)whateverist Wrote: Agreed, free will is not true or total in the archaic, religious sense. Not sure what you mean by uncaused cognition. In the absence of cause, I prefer my cognition silent.
I mean that free will is dependent on cognitive thoughts which can be translated into an effect on the physical universe from a position of being independent of natural, ie. biological and chemical influences.
In many ways, the free will argument to me, is one that states that thought can be partly, or wholly independent of the electrochemical processes of your body. Which I feel is absurd.
If they are wholly dependent on the electrochemical processes of the mind, then you can track a causal relationship to your eventual action. Indeed, if you were omniscient, able to track a causal relationship to the first atom of matter in the universe.
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If you’re going to watch tele, you should watch Scooby Doo. That show was so cool because every time there’s a church with a ghoul, or a ghost in a school. They looked beneath the mask and what was inside?
The f**king janitor or the dude who runs the waterslide. Throughout history every mystery. Ever solved has turned out to be. Not Magic. ― Tim Minchin, Storm
