RE: Show me your proof
April 9, 2013 at 2:55 pm
(This post was last modified: April 9, 2013 at 2:55 pm by Baalzebutt.)
(April 9, 2013 at 2:38 pm)jrsm_10 Wrote: Let's see. Free will is a complex subject. First we have all the chemical processes that happen in our brain. This is where some atheists argue that there is no free will. The brain functions accordingly to the chemical activity and everything we do supposedly is the result of this.
I agree with most of what you said but I have to disagree with your reasoning.
The decision to make changes, to help ourselves "get better" or change something in ourselves through education, is also a process of brain chemistry. There is no decision we make, no action we take, not thought that we think that is NOT a function of the brain.
Your last thought is correct. Though we can MANIPULATE how our brain functions we are, ultimately, a product of our brain chemistry. In fact, it takes brain chemistry to manipulate how our brains function. Imbalanced, educated, physically damaged...it doesn't matter. We still make decisions via our brains and they are made of free will because we are a product of our brains.
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." -Einstein