Do Humans Have Compulsary Will? Which best describes your take on 'will'?
May 28, 2015 at 11:12 am
(This post was last modified: May 28, 2015 at 11:24 am by Whateverist.)
Stimbo alluded to this in the first page of Aurora's recent Free Will reprise.
The question here is not "are we free to choose what we will?" Rather, I want to know if we have any other choice.
You drive up to the McDonald's window to place an order. But understanding you have no free will, you just sit there and wait for the will over which you have no say to do as it will. After the honking stops, the manager stops yelling and your car has been pushed out of the way you are genuinely surprised to see that you have received no meal at all, super-sized or otherwise. Where to hell is determinism when you need it?
Kind of odd to think that something impossible should also be required, with the fact of our survival indicating that we do accomplish this required thing. Therefore word of its non-existence must be greatly exaggerated? You may not be able to choose a happy meal free from the determinative factors of your environment. But neither, it appears, are you free to refrain from acts of will without starvation or worse.
Please choose all that apply; you are not limited to just one choice. The poll will be public so that we are all free to laugh derisively at anyone who disagrees with us.
The question here is not "are we free to choose what we will?" Rather, I want to know if we have any other choice.
You drive up to the McDonald's window to place an order. But understanding you have no free will, you just sit there and wait for the will over which you have no say to do as it will. After the honking stops, the manager stops yelling and your car has been pushed out of the way you are genuinely surprised to see that you have received no meal at all, super-sized or otherwise. Where to hell is determinism when you need it?
Kind of odd to think that something impossible should also be required, with the fact of our survival indicating that we do accomplish this required thing. Therefore word of its non-existence must be greatly exaggerated? You may not be able to choose a happy meal free from the determinative factors of your environment. But neither, it appears, are you free to refrain from acts of will without starvation or worse.
Please choose all that apply; you are not limited to just one choice. The poll will be public so that we are all free to laugh derisively at anyone who disagrees with us.
