I don't believe in free will. Prove me wrong?

Question

You're all wrong. Chemicals in my brain compelled me to ask this question. It is no different than how a lightbult is illuminated when the conditions of the electrical socket, electrical wiring, and lightswitch are configured properly. Likewise, certain atomic particles and greater biological chemicals have been set up in such a way that all of my actions have been prescripted--even this very statement that I now type.

Prove me wrong, or don't bother answering (not like you have any choice in the matter).

Answer 1

I don't believe in free will either, but I do believe your explaination left something out. True your biochemical and genetic make up are responsible for your actions. But they are not the only influence. Psychology commonly debates the dominance in influence between nature (biochemical predisposition) and nurturer (environmental influences).
In other words, despite your genetic make up, you'd not behave a certain way unless you were reacting to something. That might be a rather vague example. How about this: you wouldn't have asked this question had you not been introduced to the concept.

Answer 2

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!

Too easy!

First, you need to know about two things:

1) Wavefunctions. These describe things like atoms and electrons as waves. When you get something to act like a particle, the exact place it will be is physically impossible to predict. :)

2) Yeah, hate to bring this in, but 'chaos' - don't worry, I am not about to go pseudoscience on you. True, small changes earlier create an exponential difference later (in certain systems - you need a value called the 'Lyapunov exponent' to be greater than one), but remember Newton's law of gravity? Put that into words and you get 'small things orbit big things' - however we don't see pebbles orbiting mountains, do we? Saying that butterflies cause tornadoes is the same thing.

What happens is that in your brain a chemical interaction causes a wavefunction collapse, and then since the brain has a lyapunov exponent greater than one, the small change is carried outward in an exponential difference.

This happens so often that at no time is the mind predictable, and thus is free to choose pretty much what it wants. Note that the mechanism limits what choices you can make, of course, eg. you cannot choose to leap to the moon or change into someone made of steel. Similarly, for certain things people are rather predictable - you do have the ability not to intervene if your chold was drowning, but it is rare, to say the least.


Finally, if you meant we have no 'will' outside of our physical minds, and that the 'choice' actually stems from just plain chemical reactions, and in fact may be determined by atomic collisions, and not some mystical force, then you are quite right.


Cheers,
R_A.

Answer 3

Sure that's why we have flashes of intuition right? That's why we feel?

Let go of the anger dude. The fact that your throwing out this challenge is ridiculous because you cannot prove your opinion but I can disprove it if I take the time but I'm not interested enough. Sorry I'm not playing this game.

I answered anyhow simply for the fact that you are demanding proof! Demand away but you won't get proof just like what you wrote doesn't prove anything. You have a belief and a belief is not proof of anything. So you're either asking people to share their beliefs or your asking a question not wanting an answer.

There is such thing as a soul in my body. I know it's there. It's in all of us and the majority of the world believes there is a soul. Disprove it.

Now hopefully you can see what you did with your question.

Answer 4

Are you forced to do everything you do ?

Well, and with your recent comment, You have the right idea, people do things that are in their biological makeup. ( serial killers etc.) (sociopaths)...But even with the chemicals in your brain helping you make decisions, the average person that is not a sociopath or crazy knows right from wrong and has the abillity to learn from things whether it's learning from the past history of the world, your familiy, or your own mistakes and has the ability to use free will in making better choices. The chemicals in your brain and "how you're wired" , determine alot of things.....personality , how you handle certain situations and how you cope with problems etc......but you do have free will to make decisions. And it sounds like you're over thinking things and are'nt going to be happy with anyones answer because you have your own mind made up of what you believe.
You're asking to be proved wrong yet seem to be frustrated most people don't agree with you. You're only going to be happy with someone that agrees with you.

Answer 5

Chaos theory. Even though the universe runs on determinism, at the most basic levels, including inside the human brain, actual random, chaotic events occur all the way up to the molecular level.

Answer 6

First lets pick an authority that is greater then both of us, GOD SAYS: "IF" you love me keep my commandments" John 14:15, that alone calls for you to "make a choice" so you do have a choice but you are right in A way, We are all born because of Adam's and Eve's choice to sin with that nature, and apart from God's Holy Spirit sin and death is the only choice we have, only when God's Spirit is calling you do you have any power to choice to do what is right, only in Christ Jesus do you have real freadom to choose. So in A way your quite correct. "For God "SO" Loved you that He gave [Jesus gave Himself] to you that if you will BE-LIVE in Him you shall not die but have everlasting life Jn:3:16, free bible lessons www.itiswritten.com God bless. Email not messenger me too, [e-mail]

Answer 7

It was clay and water with which God created Carl Sagan, the seed of living beings and among living beings, God created man. With an independent self, to put him in the test and to see, how he responds independently to the Commandments of The God, The Lord Almighty.

It was a perfect creation, with a perfect free discretion. God blessed him with a female to raise tribes and generations and to spread them on the earth and to address them always through The Lords messengers. God ordained for him and for his dependents a day of judgement and created heavens of his own choice and hells against his choice. So, O the Mankind! Always choose Gods will to be safe, because between God and you there is no one to affect the judgement of your Lord.

Listen to the Lord! All the tribes, generations and people. God blessed you with freedom of choice and captured you from the top of your head after your creation. God ordained death to declare the end of the test. Nothing is like this but the test ordained for you by your God, The All Able Lord.

Evil men and women always attempt to gain prosperity through negative decisions. That’s why; they commit sins and break the law__ of course, all wrong. The book of their deeds is the record of their life___ and is nothing but evil and evilish (devilish) acts. These men and women will gain nothing but loss here and hereafter.

Righteous men and women always attempt to gain prosperity through positive decisions. That’s why they commit good deeds, follow all kind of laws of humanity and are not a hindrance for anyone. The book of their deeds is the record of their life___ by the will of the Lord___ good deeds. These men and women will gain prosperity by the will of the God__ Our Lord, here and hereafter.

God created everything, the whole universe and then created ‘you’ and gave you the knowledge of good and bad. So do good, because God wants you to do good to meet the good of God.

Answer 8

Free Will, like the movie/ euh sorry that was Free Willy. Make a choice. Despite what the regime has pounded into your brain, you can make choices that will affect the outcome of your life. Right/wrong?

Answer 9

A large portion of Christianity does not believe in a free will. Calvinism is totally against the whole concept so maybe you are not all that far off.

Answer 10

Well! you have the Freewill of what you want to beleive, and Nobody is controlling you to beleive or not to beleive in something. So its Okay not t o beleive in Freewill it's Your Freedom to think what you want to think.