"Free will does not exist" - Do you agree or disagree?

[LukeEl]

I think Styx wrote a song about this called the Dream Police.

 

[L3ggy]

Not as long as The Patriots exist.

 

[vodkazvictim]

Who's will and why should he be held captive?

 

[Will E Worm]

Calvin is that you? :tongue:

Yes, free will exists.

 

[BlueBalls]

Why in a causal universe would our brains not be bound by the same mechanism?

Compatibilism, bitchez.

 

[Jagger69]

The universe is chaotic in nature and free will indubitably exists from my perspective. In a more ethereal version of Newton's 3rd law of motion, all of my actions have repercussions in some fashion on the universe as a whole....no matter how small or insignificant they may seem at the time. To quote Geddy Lee...."I will choose free will".

Put it like this:

We do NOT decide WHERE we are born...we do NOT decide WHEN we are born...we do NOT decide WHO we are born to...we do NOT decide in what condition we are born in...we do NOT decide who our family members are...we do NOT decide what SEX we are...we do NOT decide what RACE we are...we do NOT decide our physical appearance...

...and ultimately folks....we do NOT decide whether we even EXIST.

All these conditions we have absolutely NO control of...and yet all these conditions have 100% influence in our lives and choices.

We humans operate like this: We makes choices, our choices are subject to reason (it is impossible to make a choice without a reason) and our reasons are subject to circumstances.

Circumstances ---->Reason -----> Choices.

Choices are in our control, reasons are partially in our control...circumstances are NOT in our control.

Anyone care to disagree?

Yes, I disagree. How do you qualify your premise that choices cannot be made without a reason? Choices can be and are made all the time without reason.

 

[24 Grams]

...Choices can be and are made all the time without reason.

Yeah? Give me an example.

 

[Facetious]

The universe is chaotic in nature and free will indubitably exists from my perspective. In a more ethereal version of Newton's 3rd law of motion, all of my actions have repercussions in some fashion on the universe as a whole....no matter how small or insignificant they may seem at the time. To quote Geddy Lee...."I will choose free will".

Neil Peart
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In a truly free society, we're allowed to make our own individual choices in life, the quality of outcome is not guaranteed.

Free will does exist.

 

[LukeEl]

Free will exsists now what do you want me to say next?