I ask: what value has free will if it is only about the freedom to believe in nothing when it should be about the freedom to question everything? Poch Suzara
Some years ago I had a eureka experience while reading one of Tom Clark's (founder of naturalism.org) articles on his website. Take home lesson was: All (macroscopic) phenomena in our universe have causes. To say that free will has no cause would mean that we are being "little gods" who can create something out of nothing. Therefore, we ontological naturalists don't believe in contra-causal free will. The "I" is a epiphenomenon of the brain and the choosing and chooser are all neurological. Without the brain there can be no will and no "will-er"
The trouble with free will is that we all believe we are all gifted with a free will so that the most we can do with it is to imitate each other's folly daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly. Poch Suzara
Yeah, it's rather difficult to accept that we are determined creatures--that when we "freely choose" our choices in fact are causally determined by biological, neurological, chemical, physical, circumstancial, environmenta factors. If we could recreate the exact same conditions down to the last nanojoule and subatomic particle when we made a decision we would make the exact same decision/choice.
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Some years ago I had a eureka experience while reading one of Tom Clark's (founder of naturalism.org) articles on his website. Take home lesson was: All (macroscopic) phenomena in our universe have causes. To say that free will has no cause would mean that we are being "little gods" who can create something out of nothing. Therefore, we ontological naturalists don't believe in contra-causal free will. The "I" is a epiphenomenon of the brain and the choosing and chooser are all neurological. Without the brain there can be no will and no "will-er"
The trouble with free will is that we all believe we are all gifted with a free will so that the most we can do with it is to imitate each other's folly daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly. Poch Suzara
Yeah, it's rather difficult to accept that we are determined creatures--that when we "freely choose" our choices in fact are causally determined by biological, neurological, chemical, physical, circumstancial, environmenta factors. If we could recreate the exact same conditions down to the last nanojoule and subatomic particle when we made a decision we would make the exact same decision/choice.
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