Me, cyborg...

[KevinM1]

Johnny Mnemonic.

If it were an option.....I;d like to live out my life au- natural, and then have my brain kept alive in a motherfucking SC Dragoon!

Your life for Aiur?

[The Grand Nudger]

I am returned!

[pocaracas]

Is your will ever free?

while I have a choice ... then yes i have my  free will ..
but if I lose this opportunity, I'll be slaved by drugs or another person who won't allow me to make a conscious decision, then yes my free will is limited and I can even say that I lost it..

Is your will truly free?
Are your choices free?
Given the exact same setting for some situation in your life (which I know is impossible, but hypothetically speaking) would you ever come to a choice different than the one you've made?

If you add some technology to you, it will influence your decisions, of course.
If I didn't wear glasses, my eyesight would be poor and I wouldn't choose to ride my bicycle as fast as I do, for example, out of fear of missing some obstacle.
What you want is for those decisions to not be made by the technology... but is there a difference?

[KittyAnn]

while I have a choice ... then yes i have my  free will ..
but if I lose this opportunity, I'll be slaved by drugs or another person who won't allow me to make a conscious decision, then yes my free will is limited and I can even say that I lost it..

Is your will truly free?
Are your choices free?
Given the exact same setting for some situation in your life (which I know is impossible, but hypothetically speaking) would you ever come to a choice different than the one you've made?

If you add some technology to you, it will influence your decisions, of course.
If I didn't wear glasses, my eyesight would be poor and I wouldn't choose to ride my bicycle as fast as I do, for example, out of fear of missing some obstacle.
What you want is for those decisions to not be made by the technology... but is there a difference?

Yes, my will is free ... and my choices are free
That it can be good or bad choice is another story
Of course, the world is so built that we have certain limitations if we want to live in a civilized society ... but we still have free will and we choose ... we want or not
Another fairy tale is that we are either strong enough that we don't give up on it or weak enough to surrender it ... but our will is still free.
What we do with it is our business ...
I wouldn't want this computer to make a decision for me, although probably based on the algorithms it would be better decisions than I'd have taken ... but it's better to think that it's me, not the machine, right?

...and speaking about my choice in the past yes i could do different choice and sometimes i regret it...but i was to weak to do it ..but also it was my decision not machine ...so now it is as it is.. c'est la vie!

[I_am_not_mafia]

Finally an answer to the question about free will. Free from what?

In this case, from the technology.

[pocaracas]

Is your will truly free?
Are your choices free?
Given the exact same setting for some situation in your life (which I know is impossible, but hypothetically speaking) would you ever come to a choice different than the one you've made?

If you add some technology to you, it will influence your decisions, of course.
If I didn't wear glasses, my eyesight would be poor and I wouldn't choose to ride my bicycle as fast as I do, for example, out of fear of missing some obstacle.
What you want is for those decisions to not be made by the technology... but is there a difference?

Yes, my will is free ... and my choices are free

Free from what?
Free from anyone else?... most likely, yes... within the bounds genetically and socially imposed upon you as a social animal.
Free from biophysics? Somehow, I doubt that...

Of course, the world is so built that we have certain limitations if we want to live in a civilized society ... but we still have free will and we choose ... we want or not

Yes, we choose... but is our decision truly free in such a way that we could reason differently from what we've done, given the exact same information that we had, the exact same situation, the exact same emotional state, the exact same world?

I wouldn't want this computer to make a decision for me, although probably based on the algorithms it would be better decisions than I'd have taken ... but it's better to think that it's me, not the machine, right?

It is better to think thus... but is us thinking we choose equivalent to us actually choosing?

...and speaking about my choice in the past yes i could do different choice and sometimes i regret it...but i was to weak to do it ..but also it was my decision not machine ...so now it is as it is.. c'est la vie!

Could you really?
Given the same situation, and no knowledge of how things turned out, would you really make a different decision?

[ignoramus]

[Angrboda]

[ignoramus]

^ Where's Clarence?

[KittyAnn]

of course you can
I love your sense of humor