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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 7, 2015 at 7:01 pm
(June 7, 2015 at 5:59 pm)Rhythm Wrote:
Quote:that it really is a single organism with many parts rather than just a community of individual members.
-these two things may not be mutually exclusive.  I've often felt like a bit of a community of my past and present selves.  How about you?

I agree that the feeling of human agency, which is individual, is very much a whirlwind of different ideas, memories and feelings, none of which I have much awareness over.  And yet there seems to be somthing uniting all these parts into a single whole.

If an ant colony has a "supermind," I wonder then whether humans could as well.  Does humanity, as a whole, have a kind of supermind, which is composed of the individual human parts but is itself above and beyond them?
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RE: Do Humans Have Compulsary Will? Which best describes your take on 'will'? - by bennyboy - June 7, 2015 at 7:01 pm

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