When neurons fire, the ions blend. Firing neurons helps entropy increase. It is a second law affect. Consciousness makes the brain fire at will, since consciousness is an entropy generator. It is needed to help neurons reverse. — wellwisher
No, "of course" you are not trying to understand because it does not fit into your speculation.Your "of course" seems to indicate that you acknowledge you have been talking nonsense. — Janus
What you have demonstrated is that you can speculate about that you could have wanted what you did not want.But all of that is really irrelevant to our original disagreement which was over your claim that free choice must be between what we want to do and what we don't want to do. I have demonstrated that this is false. — Janus
There we are going. So why do you say then we could? Notice: You are always talking in hindsight.Whether we could have actually chosen otherwise we can never know, because once we have chosen there is no way of checking whether we could have chosen otherwise. — Janus
Yeah, and you can only choose as good as you can. Hope your best is good enough.In fact most of our significant ethical decisions involve choosing between two things that we want to do — Janus
Make your choice. I'll tell you if it's free.one that we judge will or may be harmful to ourselves or others, and another that we want to do for purely hedonistic, selfish or self-indulgent reasons — Janus
You can't use an unfalsifiable claim as the standard of proof. Now, I am sure like all "philosophers" you think this is a matter of interpretation, opinion or whatnot; however, it is not. What you are demanding amounts to arguing that if one cannot disprove fairy magic then we can't really know if gravity is a force that attracts objects with mass. — Jeremiah
...and yet we choose. — Banno
'will' is antecedent to thought and action therefore it cannot be free but originates prior to and outside of consciousness. — Marcus de Brun
I would think that you've overstated the case here. Seems to me that in order for a will to be free, it must be free from influence, which is clearly impossible. There is no such thing as free will. We need not know everything in order to know that what we do, and what we choose to do is influenced by lots of things.
Free will presupposes volition. In order to choose better, one must first know of better.
The closest we can come to having free will is recognizing the influences that the world and others have upon us, and then being quite judicious about who and what we allow to influence us. — creativesoul
"Free will" was invented as a means to exonerate the God of Abraham from the existence of evil. — creativesoul
if one cannot disprove fairy magic then we can't really know if gravity is a force that attracts objects with mass. — Jeremiah
You tell me. — Jeremiah
I like your focus on entropy, but we would need to make a distinction between physical entropy and informational entropy here. — apokrisis
Why? Of course, you would need to know if an atom in a far away galaxy would impact on your actions, but you don't need everything that is happening with this and other atoms, you only need to know whether they'll change your actions.Basically we need to be omniscient
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