Free Will, Free Won't?

[Whateverist]

We do seem to have the capacity to surprise ourselves with our decisions, or at least critically review them, however we arive at them. Somewhere between this juxtaposition of processes the death of determinism lies, at least in terms of our perception of it.

The fact is that the evidence is not conclusive leads me to the conclusion that neuroscience is not relevant to this kind of debate, although it seems - for the avoidance of dissonance perhaps - the majority of people want free will to exist, the question that is begging here is, why?


MM

Any attempt to totally encapsulate our first person experience in a third person account has got to be incomplete.

But I think most people recognize their so-called free will to be very limited. We're not free to prefer vanilla if we don't. It sure is hard to pass on dessert even if we really, really want to lose weight.