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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 11, 2015 at 8:29 am
(June 7, 2015 at 8:50 pm)IATIA Wrote:
(June 7, 2015 at 8:46 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Of course not, computers have memory and yet we don't credit them with experience.  I guess that means our memories, even the memories of our experiences, cant necessarily prove that -we- experience either..eh?

For all intents and purposes, I cannot prove that anyone or anything exists outside of my mind.

Give it up guys.  He is on to us.
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RE: Do Humans Have Compulsary Will? Which best describes your take on 'will'? - by Whateverist - June 11, 2015 at 8:29 am

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