2007-02-15 09:52:54 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
genetics and environnement
2007-02-15 10:09:05 · answer #1 · answered by sammy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends what you mean by free will. Sure, we can make choices. But those choices are influenced by genetic and environmental factors. If you were to take a situation in which someone made a choice, and repeat it a million times with the same person in the same circumstances, they would always make the same choice. So, in a sense, free will is an illusion. If you had a powerful enough computer into which you could program all the people in the world and their environment, in complete detail, you would be able to run a perfectly accurate simulation of the choices they would make in the future. Even if someone decided to toss a coin to make a decision, the way in which they tossed the coin would be a product of genetic and environmental factors and therefore so would the outcome (once you factor in external environmental factors, like wind).
2007-02-15 10:05:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
lol
genotype + environment = phenotype
how much have I had that fed to me? lol
we are the product of both genes and environment, but there is no knowing of how much of each...it's the age old question that remains unanswerable
just to add, I'm not entirely happy with the concept of free will, but what I will say is that I doubt we are the product of "free will" in any theistic meaning of the term.
2007-02-15 09:57:38 · answer #3 · answered by town_cl0wn 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adolf Hitler lived in a flop house before beginning of ww1.
Environment? Genetics? Free will? caused holocaust?
2007-02-15 10:02:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All of the above.
Free will gave our parents the choice of environment, The environment they chose determined when and where and why were were conceived, and then genetics determined what we would look like and in a sense "who we would be".
2007-02-15 09:57:02 · answer #5 · answered by Soon2BMommy 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
We're the product of physics. So the first two are part of it but not all. There is no free will
2007-02-15 09:57:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Puppets with free will? Free will is an illusion with limited multiple choices. "This is for Pris "-Blade Runner.
2007-02-15 10:05:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Enviroment and genetics.
2007-02-15 09:57:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All three. The first two contextualize and constrain the last one.
2007-02-15 09:59:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All of the above
2007-02-15 10:13:08 · answer #10 · answered by woodsonhannon53 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A strange Mix of the three that works perfectly...
2007-02-15 09:56:26 · answer #11 · answered by IwntYrHd 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋