Do humans have free will?

Answer 1

Well...look at this way...God creates us...He give us a free will so we make a choice to make ourl ife this way or another...also have a choice to love or believe him...

Even if you dont believe in God...we DO have free will because we have lot of choices to make for our life even though there are many government involves in our life...we have will to make our life go one way or another...

In my opinon, humans have the most will among animals on the planet because they te the land...

Hope it helps?

Answer 2

The perception of Free-will is a byproduct of our inability to understand all the causal factors that contribute to the outcomes in life and our preference to feel like we have some control over the world. But if you believe in the basic logical principle that one thing causes another thing to happen, there is no room for free-will. We don't make decisions at random, we have reasons the choices we make. Our methods of choice are designed to acquire what we desire in the most efficient manner possible. What we desire is determined by our biological nature, genetics and what we have been exposed to throughout life. It is true that humans are singularly unique, but that is just because no two people are exposed the exact same things throughout life, not because people just up and decide to be different. We have wishes and regrets, put we cannot decide in any other way that which we do. In life, we just fill in the solution, but the equation has been set in motion since the beginning of time, causality is the rule. For free-will to be true, we'd have to exist in a random vacuum where nothing is linked. Our minds are designed to think in a way that gives us the perception of choice, that design is in place because it is adaptable, not because the perception is true.

Answer 3

Just for the sake of argument, I am going to take a Hard determist route and say that no, we do not have free will.

Every action that we will ever/have ever done is determined by our heredity and environment. " A good Batsman is good for two reasons: (1) He was born with good sight, steady nerves, and sound sense, all of which he owes to his ancestors. (2) He has been well taught or practised well..." A master violinist would have never become a master violinist if the violin was never used in his country.

Heredity is simply traits passed down from Ancestors and Relatives. When a baby is born the only qualities it has is that of his parents and ancestors.
However heredity is not enough to explain peoples actions and disprove free will. Environment plays a large role. Environment is everything that person has EVER experienced. Sounds, feelings, sights, meetings, everything. Every experience affects the person and will affect them in the future.

To sum it up, every single action and decision we ever make or will make, is pre-determined based on our heredity and environment. We don't have a choice.

Answer 4

We know from our practical, everyday experience of life and from our exposure to the laws of physics, that a certain effect is always the result of a previous cause. If an event does not appear to have any cause, we call it a miracle. We do not consider the effect of gravity a miracle or a mystical force: The Law of Gravity reflects our empirical knowledge that all objects fall towards the center of the earth.

Adherents to the strict interpretation of the cause/effect principle stipulate that causality must always prevail, even if we are not aware of all causes. In their view, the denial of the cause and effect principle would depict a truly chaotic universe without any predictability whatsoever.

This presumption is without merit. Persons, who choose this view of the universe, often try to justify their position by quoting Albert Einstein’s famous statement: "God does not play dice". Einstein was wrong. His scientific views became irrelevant in the decades that followed this pronouncement.

The strict applicability of the cause/effect principle would prohibit humans to choose from alternatives.

Under the doctrine of absolute causality, society cannot hold us responsible if we decide to get drunk and our actions result in an automobile accident. Such incidents would have been part of a chain of causality that originated with the beginning of the universe. If we have no Free Will, there can be no responsibility and no punishments. Society could not exist.

Strict causality, strict cause/effect relationships, can be observed and predicted in the simple machines and mechanics of Newtonian Physics. However, a haze of uncertainty and unpredictability descends over events when we are dealing with complex systems that are subject, not only to Newtonian principles, but also to Post-Newtonian laws of physics. The major laws in this category are Relativity, the Chaos Principle, Probability, the Uncertainty Principle, and Quantum Mechanics.

I could go on, but you get my drift.

Answer 5

The attitude to look at the same situation differs , just due to the free will also.

Answer 6

Yes within the guide lines of the law.

Answer 7

Completely.

Answer 8

Yes.

Answer 9

Yes, I mean No because something told me to say yes...did i get it right?

Answer 10

Yes they do and I can't believe you wasted the points to ask this question...jeese.

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