RE: Do Humans Have Compulsary Will? Which best describes your take on 'will'?
June 7, 2015 at 9:14 am
(This post was last modified: June 7, 2015 at 9:15 am by IATIA.)
(June 6, 2015 at 10:43 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(June 6, 2015 at 6:08 pm)IATIA Wrote: A one-celled animal can 'choose' between food or poison. I think our 'free will' is no more advanced than that, only more complex.
The presumed difference is that a one-celled animal doesn't have the ability to imagine.
Can bats "imagine"? Can birds "imagine"? Can cats "imagine"? Can dogs "imagine"? Can apes "imagine"? Where do you draw the line? As I stated, there is no line, only increased complexity due to increased input from increased cell count.
A colony of ants 'acts' as an animal separate from the individual ant where the colony can be considered the 'brain' and the ant a 'neuron'. When a colony forages for food, there is an algorithm that they demonstrate. This algorithm is being used to study the working of the human brain. So, are ants smart or is life just a product of what works, at all levels.
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God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
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-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
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