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

[nihilistcat]

I picked other, but only because I think a philosophical understanding of free will should be informed by a scientific understanding of how the brain works. Clearly, regardless of what people say, there is a presumption of free will in our society. How could we ethically hold people accountable for their actions if we assumed all action is compulsory? But beyond that ... our nervous system is extremely complex. We have an autonomic nervous system (which we have no control over), and central and peripheral nervous systems, which transmit sensory information to the brain or motor information from the brain. Memorizing complex ideas usually requires repetition, association, or shock, and there's limitations on how we recall memories from our brain. There are tendencies that nature selected for (that in some cases we don't fully understand yet), and of course we have physiological needs that must be satisfied. So I guess it's a free will that has numerous parameters of constraint.