And don't say genes or society – those things are out of our control. You have to be taught in the first place to want things on your own. And not choosing who you are taught by seems in violation of freewill.
2007-01-25 17:45:29 · 25 answers · asked by Sifting 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I have to be taught to want things on my own??? since when?
Before I even knew ANYTHING about God, I would cry when I was hungry.
Free will is in place even though god does not exist.
your statement "And not choosing who you are taught by seems in violation of freewill."...is completely ridiculous and utterly false
2007-01-25 17:49:31 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 7⤊ 1⤋
What are you talking about? You just have it. You get to choose. Its part of being alive. You have no direction you are forced to go in by anything other than society.
Odd question when the answer is so obvious. Free will isn't GIVEN to you, you just have it.
You Christians keep assuming that someone or something created us, and gave things to us. But since nothing created us, then why would something have had to give us anything?
Your logic is just... way out in space somewhere.
2007-01-25 17:57:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not 100% correct and by far a complete answer.
One explanation is that our sensors will trigger the nerves and send signal to our brain. Base on experience like pains, we choose to react within our capacity, free will. Passed experiences governs how someone learns. And people can learn probably close to the speed of light since vision is one of the sensors in most people.
2007-02-02 02:54:24 · answer #3 · answered by ShanShui 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Don't say genes or society"? What an unbelievably ignorant attempt to "control" responses to a question that you have posed to a group rational human beings.
There is no such thing as "free will", precisely because "those things are out of our control". Everything that we do, every decision we make, every emotion we experience, is the direct result of brain function, which is determined by heredity and environment. Other than that, you can't ascribe everything you don't understand to "God" - that is the epitome of intellectual laziness and makes your deity little more than the "God of the Gaps".
2007-01-25 17:50:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
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2016-11-27 19:34:10 · answer #5 · answered by schook 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A child is not taught to want comfort, food and security although they need to be taught how to acquire these things for themselves.
Free will is not just being able to make decisions contrary to your desires and instincts but also taking responsibility for your life.
Free will comes from our primary survival trait.........intelligence. We are intelligent enough to see our options, the question is: are we intelligent enough to choose wisely?
2007-01-25 18:01:14 · answer #6 · answered by thewolfskoll 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hawking would say the Big Bang. Darwin would say survival. That's what our kids get taught. Now there are efforts in neuro-ethical-imaging: PET scans to finally determine the molecular origins of the concept of right and wrong!
2007-01-25 17:54:06 · answer #7 · answered by thepaxilman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So, basically, anything that's too hard for you to understand or can't find an answer to is why you have a god?
Read "The selfish gene" by Richard Dawkins.
It's all genetic. If we were all lemmings, we'd have never survived this long. And Evolution is all about survival.
2007-01-25 17:50:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Free will is an illusion. It does not, in truth exist independently from the influences of society and your environment. Nothing you want comes from free will.
There are brain studies that indicate that your brain knows what you will choose before you are aware of consciously choosing. Since choice precedes conscious choice, then the illusion of free will persists, but it is at best extremely complex and interactive, not independent of outside influence.
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2007-01-25 17:57:18 · answer #9 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Eliminating the answers makes your question invalid. That's like me asking you were freewill comes from, and then telling you not to answer "God".
2007-01-25 17:50:47 · answer #10 · answered by Count Acumen 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋