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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'?
June 1, 2015 at 12:59 pm (This post was last modified: June 1, 2015 at 1:01 pm by henryp.)
(June 1, 2015 at 12:45 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Presumably, that the human being has an experience of that which a computer does not.

That's a big presumption, I think, no?

Could you clarify "has an experience"?
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RE: Do Humans Have Compulsary Will? Which best describes your take on 'will'? - by henryp - June 1, 2015 at 12:59 pm

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