Do our brains / bodies fallow the laws of physics?

Question

when your brain sends and recieves electrical impulses from your body which controls your movements and thought, did'nt those impulses and chemicals come from somewhere?

if you throw a rock, will it fallow a parabolic path?
why would'nt the atoms that encompass our bodies fallow the predictable, unbreaking laws of physics?\
what im saying is there is no free-will. its an illusion. everything has a cause. including your brain. the chemicals and molecules do what they are told just like every other thing that exsist in the physical universe.

your thoughts are dependent and directly based on your five senses, which comes from your brain. no offence, but your foolish. your ignorant to what the mind is, the mind and brain are the same, your thoughts are experienced from your ability to manipulate memory, and react to to events in-time. its all the brain my friend.

if i hit your knee with a mallet, it jerks because your brain told it to, not your 'mind'.

pat z, if you choose to flip the guy off, there is a reason you choose to do that of all things. thats what i m saying. cause and effect.

Answer 1

I think that you may be confusing mind with brain. Your brain is an amazing organ it controls our muscles, respiration, pulmonary function and a host of other lesser known functions, but it does not think.

Thought is a function of mind that exists independent of anything physical. What appears to be the brain thinking in brain function imaging and other brain measuring attempts is only blood flow being measured to the part of the brain that acts as an interface between the mind and the body. This is the secondary function of the brain after regulating bodily functions. It acts as the interface, or the mind body connection.

Without it there would be no way for the nonphysical mind to exert any control over the physical body.
It is interesting that science has done its best to overlook this fact for so long. The silly idea that thought is some magical function of some mysterious electrochemical reaction is so vague as to be hilarious. There are several ways to disprove this theory beyond any shadow of a doubt.

Being nonphysical in source your mind is in no way effected by the death of the body and loss of the mind body interface, or brain.

Love and blessings.
don

Answer 2

In short, yes. Our brains and bodies follow the laws of physics (and chemistry).
About free will being an illusion:
That depends on how you define free will. The movement of your body corresponds to the actions of your brain, so in that sense you have free will. If you want to move to the left, you can. However, your wanting to move the left is a result of something too. This something is the chemical properties of your brain, which I do not believe are yet fully understood.
Another way of putting this is that at any moment, the next moment has only one possibility.
You said "free-will is an illusion". This is a very good way of describing the facts, although it isn't actually an illusion. You are actually perceiving yourself make decisions. That is not the illusion. The real illusion is when you look back upon your decisions, and say you could have done things differently.

Answer 3

Of course our brains follow the laws of physics. You take out the occipital cortex, you can't see. You take out the limbic system, you have no emotions. You take out Broca's area, you can't talk. So it stands to reason that consciousness is physical process, and those who don't agree with that are always going to be the ones who believe in the supernatural (ie.religious types). In this sense, everything has an original cause, and our decisions therefore are never made outside of the context of our memories, environment, personal histories, and genetic predispostions. That is not to say that everything is preordained, but that every person does not have an infinite range of choices, because there are only certain kinds of choices you could ever make based on our unique circumstances. So free will as it's been proposed by those who believe that the mind exists outside the physicial structure of our brains is really a fallacy, and not the kind of free will any of us would want to have anyways.

Answer 4

Definitely. Anything that is composed of matter and metabolizes energy follows the laws of physics. The free will question is debatable, depending on how you define it. If you define free will as being capable of doing or becoming whatever we want, then what meaning would it have? I don't want to be a freeform magical volatile blob (not conforming to physical laws). I'm happy realizing what I can be, given my body. There are already so many possibilities given this form, given the natural world. Just think of the millions of species of life, the many different ways by which human beings live! Free will, possibility without actuality, is useless. I don't have a problem with my brain following the laws of physics. It's just how it works.

Answer 5

Free will is about choice.
Sure you have a physical reaction to something, like the hammer on the knee reflex test.
But what about, for example, you're driving and someone cuts you off. You could go after them, honking and screaming and try to cut them off in turn (I've seen people on the highway doing just this! Insane!); you could call them a name or flip them the finger and continue on your way; you could laugh about it; you could ignore it. How you react in this situation is ultimately YOUR CHOICE. And the next time someone cuts you off, you could have a completely different reaction.

Answer 6

Yes, they do. And I agree with your other comments as well.