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Do Humans Have Compulsary Will? Which best describes your take on 'will'?

Poll: What is "will" to you?
This poll is closed.
Radically free in the full blooded libertarian sense.
0%
 0 0%
Free but inescapably (and thankfully) constrained.
17.65%
 3 17.65%
Compulsory. Nothing gets willed unless I get off my lazy ass.
5.88%
 1 5.88%
Free when not impeded by the will of another or circumstances beyond my feeble powers.
11.76%
 2 11.76%
"Will" is an illusion of the mind, a concept believed by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
23.53%
 4 23.53%
Will is epiphenomenal, a byproduct of useful processes of the brain.
23.53%
 4 23.53%
Other please explain unless the repeated call to so causes nausea. Check with your doctor to see if your constitution is strong enough for this debate.
17.65%
 3 17.65%
Total 17 vote(s) 100%
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Do Humans Have Compulsary Will? Which best describes your take on 'will'?
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RE: Do Humans Have Compulsary Will? Which best describes your take on 'will'?
May 28, 2015 at 3:59 pm
I really don't know to be honest. The brain likes to keep moving - following trains of thought and associations etc - but 'choice' happens mainly when it is at rest (ie when you are not lost in thought). Ie you can sit and do nothing for x amount of time and then make a choice. In other words I don't know what triggers it as opposed to how normal associations are triggered. It could be just subconscious stuff going on under the surface and when that 'returns' it triggers the act of choice but I really don't know. I'm still inclined to think though that it is determined in the same way as the other brain processes are, just part of its affect is to make us feel like we really are doing it ourselves.
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RE: Do Humans Have Compulsary Will? Which best describes your take on 'will'? - by emjay - May 28, 2015 at 3:59 pm

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