Do you believe in free will, despite the fact that you can control neither your genes, nor your environment?

Answer 1

I heard a theroy once saying that there is no free will.
It states this that iwe where made like a line of dominos. That life is a line of dominos more or less and that those dominos where set down on a table(life) and put in a patteren. Starting with the first domino then some one pushed them over leading to the rest of the dominos falling over in the patteren that they where ment to fall over the only choice that you get is the space between each domino still leading to the next domino. so maybe even the movement of your hand is domino just falling over to lead to the next domino free will or no free will.
I dont know it all depends on how you look at it.@Joshua washburn

Answer 2

Changing yourself and targeting what you want no matter the difficulties is what free will your best chance to be yourself.
Think about the ancient Genius, no clue about genes or environment and their legacy of freedom will guide us forever.

They just followed their own will, there ideals, they defended their convictions till the end.
If following your ideals, defending your believes is possible to you, then you are making good use of your free will.

Of course I believe, and I try to give you some ideas in order that you could pay attention or not to them. That is up to you and means free will.

Cheer up, despite the environment and your genetic:psychological conditioning, you can always count on yourself and take your own decision if you are strong enough.
Have a good life, and keep always your free will untouched

Answer 3

I believe that we can control our genes. However I don't believe in free will. I believe we are here to gain knowledge about the purpose and existence of life in order to, in the after life, be closer to god.If somebody creates a genetically modified child that child to was meant to be just as anybody else. Fate. The more we learn here the more experiences we have, Love, hate , loss gain, wealth, starvation, even the pleasant feeling of chewing gum,or riding a bike. I believe they are all equally important. We experience everything and in the after life reflect on all our past lives, and then come back to learn more. Eventually reaching a point of complete understanding and then???

Answer 4

Free will isn't, of course, absolute; you can't, for example, choose to be, say, young or old.
I've always liked the concept of comparing it to a superhighway with a finite number of lanes. You can switch lanes from time to time, but you can't leave the highway.
By the way, while I can't control my genes (though with the way science is progressing, that statement may not be true for much longer), I certainly can control a lot of my environment.

Answer 5

Yes I do believe in free will. I believe that our essence (or soul) is our own and we make choices as to what happens. Your genes and the environment are only things you have to work with......sure you may have red hair because of genes but you chose to hate that or love it, true? And you can manipulate your environment to our comfort or our demise.

Answer 6

Yes I do believe in free will. We can't control our whole environment but you can change where you live, who you live with, how you live, what you live with and your job (more like your career). I can eat what I want, when I want... I can do a lot of things I want without having to worry about my genes or my environment.

Answer 7

Your genes and your environment have nothing to do with your freedom to chose from various scenarios as to how you will handle any situation. Unlike some life forms you can chose for example your diet, your habitat, your means of survival etc.

Answer 8

I believe in the illusion of free will, in that we all think we can choose our actions. For instance, I think I can choose to either mow the lawn or not mow the lawn in spite of the fact that I must mow the lawn to (a) satisfy my genetic need for neatness, (b) obey the social standard around me, which my family training gave me the need to do, and (c) obey my wife, who will become angry at me if I let the lawn rot. I have been trained to obey my wife. But whether I really have free will or not, I act as if I have free will, and therefore that makes me believe I have a free will.
I can choose to mow the lawn or not mow the lawn, but the odds heavily favor my mowing it.
I like your question, which has been debated by philosophers for centuries. I hope you liked my answer.

Answer 9

It is the inflexibilities of our environment that forced mankind to develop the ability to make decisions to adapt/etc. I think maybe the lack of control over our environment, not the antithesis, of free will!

Answer 10

free will is having the power of choice, not control over one's life, it is the freedom to choose, and where those choices take us we cannot control