RE: Free Will, Free Won't?
September 22, 2013 at 5:21 am
(This post was last modified: September 22, 2013 at 5:21 am by bennyboy.)
(September 19, 2013 at 11:46 am)Zone Wrote: There is nothing in psychology that states that we do not have freewill, yes people will tend to behave in particular ways but can't be 100% sure what they will do. This is a philosophical question really.It is very much a philosophical question, because you have to define free will, and there's some subjectivity in choosing that definition.
However, you are wrong to say that nothing in psychology states we do not have freewill. There are many cases in which a person loses control of his/her behavior. There are also new experiments in which people who THINK they are fully conscious of their own decision-making process actually start to act on an impulse before they are consciously aware of it.
Now, I don't think those experiments are strong enough to discard some important role for an experiencing, feeling being beyond simple brain chemistry. But they certainly exist, and to completely disregard them would be to hide from the truth.
