(May 3, 2013 at 12:41 pm)apophenia Wrote:
I feel you've failed to engage the literature in any substantive way and have resorted to merely parroting other people's opinions.
I quoted Sam Harris to show evidence from a psychologist on this view point. I have gone into a bit of detail and am not merely trying to parrot other people's opinions as you put it. I do genuinely believe that this idea of having free will is questionable. I get up in the morning and go through my daily routine doing certain things and it seems like I am in total control of everything but am I really? I also think about this idea that there could be a set of predetermined responses that give the illusion of free will in such away that allows us to feel like we have ultimate control but really we don't. It is difficult to prove for certain one way or another but I like to keep my mind open to all sorts of possibilities.
I think that everybody is repeating what they learned from another person or source with what they say as before we know something we have to be educated in it by someone else. When we are born we know nothing and so everything we know now has been taught to us. The difference is showing an understanding of something rather than just reciting something you have learned, but thanks for the feedback
