RE: Do you believe in free will?
March 13, 2012 at 8:56 am
(This post was last modified: March 13, 2012 at 9:04 am by The Grand Nudger.)
You very much seem to be seperating your will and your choices from "you". Somehow you are "making" these things, controlling your will. Is it possible that you are these things, that you don't make choices, you don't make your will, that they make you. By what mechanism are you "changing" your will, "making choices"? You say you can show the practical application of free will, well, so can I, but I have strong suspsicions that it is the practical application of a useful illusion. It would be more convincing if you could show us your free will, or the mechanism by which you achieve free will. Some part of you that escapes processes which we find to be very deterministic, in short, how have "you" escaped biology.
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