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Free will and humans
March 7, 2016 at 3:43 am
In your opinion do you feel that humans possesses free will? What is your opinion on the matter?
It is my opinion that humans does possess free will, so I will be arguing for it. I feel that I do poses free will as I am capable of deciding what I'm going to do in the very next minute. If I didn't poses free will then I should've been incapable of deciding what I'm going to do even in the next second. Thus as I have a control over my actions I have free will.
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RE: Free will and humans
March 7, 2016 at 3:46 am
I have the free will to do whatever I wish.
However, when it comes to your job, do you truly have free will?
You can either do what your job requires or you can lose your job because you go against what the job requires.
Free will has so many components.
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RE: Free will and humans
March 7, 2016 at 3:54 am
I still poses free will when it comes to my job as my actions are still in my control -I can either decide to direct my actions in such a way as to keep my job or get fired. However given a constraint that I have to direct my actions in such a manner as to keep my job is indirectly imposing constraints on my actions and falsely arriving at the conclusion that I do not possess free will.
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RE: Free will and humans
March 7, 2016 at 4:22 am
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Nope. It appears we're fundamentally governed by chance, or by fatalism. I've come to think of "free will" as a woo phrase. It's too slippery to mean anything.
If you want to call the outcome of lots of random quantum interactions a "choice", then that's fine. But I don't think it's at all accurate.
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RE: Free will and humans
March 7, 2016 at 4:22 am
And how are you going to become rich merely by thinking you can?
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RE: Free will and humans
March 7, 2016 at 4:34 am
Shouldn't one be capable of association?
There are realistic goals and then there are goals that are beyond reach.
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RE: Free will and humans
March 7, 2016 at 5:01 am
Yes there are realistic goals and unrealistic goals but you seem to forget that free will is about possessing the freedom to pursue those goals,I.e,possessing the freedom to govern ones actions.
