Can you force yourself to think about something?
2006-12-14 12:55:48 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am forcing myself to answer your question.
Voila! Freewill in action!
2006-12-14 12:59:56 · answer #1 · answered by lookn2cjc 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well certainly. So can you.
Here's an example of free will in action. Think of the very next letter that I'm going to type. Are you ready? Ready to tell me what letter? Write it down. Get ready to confirm. Okay. It was "A".
2006-12-14 20:59:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course. By will you may access and stimulate different parts of the brain in nano seconds-tapping into memory banks and
coaxing a plethura of neural response.
Now try thinking of nothing (no-thing)...give up? can't be done.
We can't think of nothing but yet we see ourselves as so wise in our puny finite minds. God's blinks at our collective ignorance with a sigh.
2006-12-14 21:10:52 · answer #3 · answered by bonsai bobby 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thinking comes naturallly as a reaction to stimulus. At least for an able minded human. This does not indicate that free will exists.
2006-12-14 21:05:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Click.....Blaaam......<<< thats the sound of me shooting myself over this question.
Force yourself to think about your gramdma naked, I dont believe that freewill works . There are actions and reactions from those actions.. You can think or not think about whatever you want but this does not make it freewill. You have to react to the enviroment in one way or another you are not given a choice whether to react or not.
2006-12-14 21:06:27 · answer #5 · answered by Crayola 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Certainly. The hard part is to think of nothing. That's what takes an enormous amount of will power.
2006-12-14 21:00:38 · answer #6 · answered by flip4449 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Huh? I don't really understand. I can think about whatever I want, but first I have to know what I want to think about. So the thing that I want to think about just appears in my brain. (Or someone can tell specifically me what to think about. Like .....what is your mom's hair color)
2006-12-14 21:01:45 · answer #7 · answered by Happy Girl=) 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you build the right parameters for thinking positively, yes
2006-12-14 21:00:52 · answer #8 · answered by rapturefuture 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. The hard part might be to think objectively.
Rene Descartes said, "I think, therefore, I am."
2006-12-14 21:58:48 · answer #9 · answered by metoo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'll have to get back to you on that as I most think about it.
2006-12-14 21:01:29 · answer #10 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋