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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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RE: Do Humans Have Compulsary Will? Which best describes your take on 'will'?
June 5, 2015 at 12:16 am (This post was last modified: June 5, 2015 at 12:17 am by Whateverist.)
(June 1, 2015 at 4:54 pm)wallym Wrote:
(June 1, 2015 at 1:11 pm)Rhythm Wrote: It is, huge...massive..gargantuan.  Could I clarify?  No, not for the life of me.  The furthest I could take you is the statement that a computer clearly does not have a human mind.....but, neither does a dog...so../shrugs

So, do you think the human mind is something different or just a variation of the same kind of thing we'd call a dog mind.  For example, an iPad and Watson do not have the same programming, but they are both just computers in the end.  It's just a matter of bells and whistles on the backend.

(June 1, 2015 at 4:57 pm)Rhythm Wrote: A variation of the same thing we'd call a dog mind.  Biological implementations of broader principle.

Absolutely.  Obviously.  The human mind wouldn't work if it didn't incorporate a standard mammal brain.  Our mammal brain too is dependent on our reptilian brain.  I can't prove any of that but I offer it sincerely as an unsupported assertion.  (You're welcome.)
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RE: Do Humans Have Compulsary Will? Which best describes your take on 'will'? - by Whateverist - June 5, 2015 at 12:16 am

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