http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=...7941253600# In this episode they have a long discussion on consciousness and mention that study that shows your brain moves your finger before you are consciously aware of it. They mention that free will might be the power to veto that action. As far as I currently stand, the choices are still in the brain and the brain is what makes us us, so even if we're not consciously aware at the second the decision is made to move a finger, it's still us making a choice.
Long story short, I understand the determinist point of view. It's interesting. I'd like to see more science on it. I'm gonna hold to the belief in free will until better evidence comes along.
On a side note, if it becomes a fact that free will doesn't exist but only the illusion of it does, I think we still need to operate as a society that it does exist.
Long story short, I understand the determinist point of view. It's interesting. I'd like to see more science on it. I'm gonna hold to the belief in free will until better evidence comes along.
On a side note, if it becomes a fact that free will doesn't exist but only the illusion of it does, I think we still need to operate as a society that it does exist.
"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." Benjamin Franklin
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