RE: Do you believe in free will?
March 14, 2012 at 10:25 am
(This post was last modified: March 14, 2012 at 10:29 am by genkaus.)
(March 14, 2012 at 10:09 am)Rhythm Wrote: He probably got that idea from your arguments to the effect of there somehow being a difference between causality as it applies to free will, and how it applies to everything else. You seem to be arguing for a special case without realizing it.
No special cases - only separate consideration. Causality does not and would not apply any differently to free-will than to everything else.
(March 14, 2012 at 10:23 am)Rhythm Wrote: So, again, it is complexity? How does this complexity affect causality then? Worms brains are not "complex enough", human brains, though operating on an expanded worms brain, and under completely identical laws are. Would that be a fair appraisal of your position? Worms exhibit behaviors, as do plants, so, an effect is not good enough to qualify as "free will". Can we get less complex than a human brain and still have "free will"?
Yes, we can.
Complexity contributes to the functions the brain is capable of. Exercise of free-will is simply one of brain's functions that occurs above a certain level of complexity.
