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Poll: What is "will" to you?
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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'?
I checked with my psychologist and she said I had to vote 'other'.
Explanation;
If radically free will existed then I would be able to levitate better.
If I can't tell 'truly free' from 'free but illusory' then I can't say 2. or 4. are true or false.
I don't understand 'compulsory free will', 3. seems a self contradiction.
I'm most inclined towards 5. and 6. together because I believe that consciousness is a process that emerges from brain function of which the appearance of free will is a sub-process. None of this has been shown to be anything other than deterministic as we understand the term in the context of physics and chemistry.  As will appears to be free although all processes making it up are observed to be deterministic, the freedom must be illusory.  Though it does signify exactly what I say it does.

  1. Radically free in the full blooded libertarian sense.
  2. Free but inescapably (and thankfully) constrained.
  3. Compulsory. Nothing gets willed unless I get off my lazy ass.
  4. Free when not impeded by the will of another or circumstances beyond my feeble powers.
  5. "Will" is an illusion of the mind, a concept believed by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
  6. Will is epiphenomenal, a byproduct of useful processes of the brain.
  7. 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.
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat? Huh
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RE: Do Humans Have Compulsary Will? Which best describes your take on 'will'? - by JuliaL - May 28, 2015 at 7:35 pm

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