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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 8:29 pm (This post was last modified: May 28, 2015 at 8:49 pm by bennyboy.)
(May 28, 2015 at 7:02 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Accuracy in the scientific sense.  I'm primarily concerned with explaining metaphysical details with naturalistic explanations.

The thing with naturalistic explanations is that they can only point to causes of various levels of proximity, but can never point to ultimate causes. For example, if you ask why I have a mind, it's simple enough to say that it's a byproduct of the brain. If I disbelieve you, you can smack me in the head in a baseball bat, and it will be clear that my mind is no longer functioning. But that's like saying "If I pull away this magnet, the magnetic field isn't there anymore. Therefore the reason magnetic fields exist is that's what magnets do." That's true, but it's no really the right kind of answer.

It seems to me that all naturalistic explanations have a simple ontology-- they end at a statement of brute fact. But "The Big Bang diddit" isn't really much more satisfying than "Goddidit," in my opinion.
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RE: Do Humans Have Compulsary Will? Which best describes your take on 'will'? - by bennyboy - May 28, 2015 at 8:29 pm

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