(March 26, 2012 at 2:52 pm)Chuck Wrote:(March 26, 2012 at 2:47 pm)Norfolk And Chance Wrote:(March 26, 2012 at 11:43 am)NoMoreFaith Wrote:(March 26, 2012 at 11:29 am)Norfolk And Chance Wrote: Yes, I know I make my decisions.
Why? No one would care. We all know we have our own free will, there's nothing to discuss.
I used my free will to decide to post this reply on this thread, and I may or may not decide to reply again.
Why do you think your really had the freedom to choose from all the options that you recognized but eventually didn't chose? All you know is you don't see why you couldn't have chosen differently. But given the state of neuroscience, it seem hard to believe that you really could have seen very far down the exact neurological mechanism of your decision making process.
May be you recognize multiple choice, but it was as predictable as night following day that you will choice the one you actually chose. Choices only appears to be there due to gaps in your understanding of how you think. In reality you will chose exactly how you chose, and you can't deviate from it regardless of how many choices you imagine to have been available to you.
In this scenario, what is the meaning of free will?
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My definition is simple, the individual ability to make choices.
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.
