whats free will?

Question

r u free to answer this question?

Answer 1

to be able to do anything you want determinedly?

Answer 2

To most people free will means free action. Technically, though, freewill means freedom to wish something to be the case. So your second question about being free to answer the question is irrelevant. If I were somehow constrained against answering, but was still free to wish to answer, then my will is still free.

But free will is ultimately a meaningless concept. If we have it, or if we do not, it does not chage anything. If we don't, we never did, and things go on as they have. If we do have it, we always have, and things go on as they have. I think people hang up on the concept of free will for the sake of having some basis for moral judgement. But if we are not free, those judgements still come. Some one who only partially understands this may rob a house and say "don't punish me, my decision and actions were all determined." But in that case, their punishment is alrerady determined, too. Any answer to the question changes nothing.

Answer 3

the answer to that question is the same as:

Is the present King of France bald?


***** volition isn't the same thing as free-will. Volition is the same thing as "WILL". No one is denying we don't choose and act. We just aren't the perfectly distinct atom of pure godly ability to directly cause Anything without necessary histories, webs of belief, rendered maps and environments. The understanding of this untouched domain whereby a responsible agent "Freely" chooses among various option without ANY bias... is the myth. S/he will always choose the best one. And the calculus for that is already biased by what came before.

Answer 4

I'm free to answer the question, free will par se does not exist, nor does freedom of speech.

They can never truly exist, for if they did one would be free to kill another and not be punished for it.

We have limited free will. Another example is, I have to get up and go to work so that i can pay my bills, I don't want to get up and go to work, yet to have a certain quality of life I must, yes I could reject it, but I want the quality of life I have now, ergo my free will is a moot point because I must do something.

Anytime you must do something means that your free will is limited.

Answer 5

Free will means that no-one may make you do things that are against your will.
God gave us free will (whatch Jim Carry's Bruce Almighty, there is some truth to the movie), together with some rules. He can't make us obey them, since we have free will, but the chances to go to heaven when you brake them constantly won't be very high.

We also got something called 'commen sence'...no-one can make us kill a man without taking our free will away, but we won't do it, since we know it's wrong.

I hope this answers it a bit :)

Answer 6

Free will is your inalienable right to ignore all the good advice you are ever given and continue to make a complete mess of your life!

Yes, my I answer is free, but I should be charging an enormous fee!

Answer 7

Free will is also known as "volition," and is the philosophical axiom that declares your actions are not controlled by factors other than your conscious mind.

Volition is axiomatic because if one tries to deny volition one must use volition to think and to form arguments. If one's arguments are not a product of volition, then they do not count as knowledge, since they are a predetermined chain of words with no meaning. So yes, I am free to answer this question, and you are free to contemplate my answer.

Answer 8

Free will is ones ability to make choices within the scope of present circumstances.
Willing to do something, is not actually doing it. You are free to will whatever you can.
Choosing the consequences however; is something totally different.

If YOU can think about anything (and I mean anything) you have free will.

Try to prove me wrong:)

Answer 9

That's a bit complicated......yes I am free to answer this question. Free will is sort of what you will allow yourself to do. Like, I know that I could rob a bank but that doesn't mean I'm going to let myself. That may not be the dictionary reference of it but that's my look.

Answer 10

There is no such thing. We are only free to do what is in our nature to do. We are free to jump off a bridge into the ocean, but are we free to jump onto a bridge from swimming in the ocean?

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Answer 11

free will, the way I view it, is the ability to make choices and decisions , independently of genetic make up or environmental influences. wow, this is actually really hard to put into words. Basically, it boils down to whether you believe in destiny or not..if you believe in destiny, then every choice you made, while it seems like free will, was actually guided by forces you werent aware of.