One does not possess absolute but partial free
will instead : there are fundamentals which cannot
be manipulated such as the laws of physics and biology
There are other restraints which are capable of compromise
though are designed not to such as legal and psychological ones
but beyond that one really should have free will albeit in a limited form
But it is not that straight forward : since starts to get complicated
and this complication manifests itself in the way that the conscious and
subconscious interact : and essentially what happens is that our conscious
mind convinces us that decisions can be taken with us being in absolute control
the aforementioned restraints nothwithstanding : this is a fallacy though as the subtle
but significant interplay of the subconscious is influencing the conscious : given the nature
of the subconscious it is not easy to reference and so which is where the confusion about being
in absolute control arises : may be that all decisions we take no matter how insignificant have some
input from the subconscious or just the important ones : but what is absolutely certain is that we do not
have as much free will as we would like to think given this fact : the subconscious appears therefore to act as a
reinforcer of what ever needs to be done to protect us like some type of hard wired evolutionary psychological buffer
against anything that might compromise our well being : this would debilitate against the taking of spontaneous decisions
for example : it is however not foolproof since otherwise we would never be capable of making such decisions in the first place
will instead : there are fundamentals which cannot
be manipulated such as the laws of physics and biology
There are other restraints which are capable of compromise
though are designed not to such as legal and psychological ones
but beyond that one really should have free will albeit in a limited form
But it is not that straight forward : since starts to get complicated
and this complication manifests itself in the way that the conscious and
subconscious interact : and essentially what happens is that our conscious
mind convinces us that decisions can be taken with us being in absolute control
the aforementioned restraints nothwithstanding : this is a fallacy though as the subtle
but significant interplay of the subconscious is influencing the conscious : given the nature
of the subconscious it is not easy to reference and so which is where the confusion about being
in absolute control arises : may be that all decisions we take no matter how insignificant have some
input from the subconscious or just the important ones : but what is absolutely certain is that we do not
have as much free will as we would like to think given this fact : the subconscious appears therefore to act as a
reinforcer of what ever needs to be done to protect us like some type of hard wired evolutionary psychological buffer
against anything that might compromise our well being : this would debilitate against the taking of spontaneous decisions
for example : it is however not foolproof since otherwise we would never be capable of making such decisions in the first place
A MIND IS LIKE A PARACHUTE : IT DOES NOT WORK UNLESS IT IS OPEN