What is your understanding of "free" will?

Answer 1

jonas ,i think you know better than I, the sense of free will is an illusion,One passing from ignorance onto the bridge of law to enter into Grace needs a sense of My will which manipulates one through "sin",or cause and effect(karma)until one finally says,OH GOD,help me,I can't run my own life without making a mess of it. then when one lets Go and begins doing GODS will he will discover there is but one will,one power,one GOD.

Answer 2

Free will is the ability to choose. Take for instance someone holding a gun to you head and demands something from you. You can give it to the person and possibly live, or you can refuse and possibly die. Free will is the choice you make with the knowledge you think you know. I like to point out, most choices you make aren't exactly like this. Other things to note, every single human beings free will choices have gotten the world exactly where it is right now. The choices others make can appear to make a choice for you, unless you know how to think around the choices in front of you. If someone says there is no free will, there not thinking hard enough, some answers aren't multiple choice, you make your own answer to your problem and take that as your choice. You have to be able to think to understand free will, because if you can't think you have no free will.

Answer 3

I don't think stimuli has anything to do with free will. How you react to something is completely your choice. Genetic disposition is a far-fetched idea. If our choices were decided for us then there would never be any sense of indecision in any individual person. People would make their decisions succinctly and and quickly.

I think free will is just that. Do exactly as you like, whenever, whatever you like without accountability... in which ofcourse no society could live without chaos, but it's a nice idea.

Answer 4

It is the attitude of deep sense of acceptance, and out of such deep acceptance, the freedom we experience from the accumulation of any residue of consequence of our response to the situation, with which we look at things, irrespective of the nature of events, that decides our ability to have a free will.

Answer 5

There is no such thing. People act according to a deep genetic predisposition. After the act they are however free to choose any reason for their behavior, mostly to clarify their behavior to themselves. The sad thing is that most people believe their fictitious explanations.

Answer 6

"Free" will is religious terminology. It means the exercising the choice between good and evil as prescibed by the faith when making a decision.
"Free" will per se does not exist.

Answer 7

I don't believe we have free will. There are to many forces that contribute to our behavior: social, biological, genetic. If it were possible to take everything into account, I think human behavior would be 100% predictable.

Answer 8

you have a responsiblity to choose what you think and beleive and do. it is a curse. easier to just follow orders.
Sarte said it best "we are all doomed to be free"
He means that we are each responsible for ourselves and if we are not happy we have nobody to blame but our own individual selves.Not GOD. Not other men, but our own self.
This is a harsh system.
That is why so many people opt out and let others do their thinking for them. SIEG HEIL!

Answer 9

The idea (or illusion) that we get to choose what we do.

It is an extremely fun philosophical question, because most of what we see in nature tells us that things don't really work that way, and that we react in very predictable ways to stimuli.

You forced me to answer this question this way! I'll get you for this!

Answer 10

Hmmm, There are a million other things I should be doing right now... but I choose this.

The option to make mistakes.