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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 31, 2015 at 11:18 am
(May 31, 2015 at 9:48 am)Jörmungandr Wrote:
(May 30, 2015 at 11:23 pm)bennyboy Wrote:  But I don't think there is a "kind-of subjective": either something has that perspective or it doesn't.  

Then we'll just have to agree to disagree.  However where your assertion makes a mystery of psychogony, mine facilitates an explanation: awareness gradually evolved; there was no sudden emergence.

Hmmmm. . . given that evolution happens based on variation or mutation, and given that at some point there was absolutely no mind on the Earth, then how could there not have been sudden emergence?

I certainly agree that psychogony is a mystery, but evolution doesn't really help us much either.  It's pretty clear to see why the brain evolved, and why people act certain ways; it is much less easy to see why an evolved brain needs to subjectively experience anything.  Are you sure that in this case, it's not just "evolutiondidit" rather than "Goddidit?
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RE: Do Humans Have Compulsary Will? Which best describes your take on 'will'? - by bennyboy - May 31, 2015 at 11:18 am

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