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Don't say "I'd be a robot" because that doesn't answer the question. What would you FEEL? What would you THINK? How would you know if it happened? I want to know what you think it would be like from YOUR perspective.

2007-04-03 07:18:33 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

We have no free will.

2007-04-03 07:22:44 · update #1

You guys aren't answering the question. You are saying what would happen, not how you would feel.

2007-04-03 07:24:13 · update #2

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You would just feel the same as you feel now. Because not having free will doesn't mean knowing that you don't have it. You could be manipulated to believe, that what you are supposed to do, and what you think is exactly what you want to do. Evolution tells us that we need to eat, drink, sleep have sex, and we think that it is us wanting those things. In fact we are conditioned by our DNA and by society to want what we are supposed to do. As this is so (or could be so), we will never know if we have free will, but behave as if we had.

2007-04-03 07:31:58 · answer #1 · answered by hanuman 2 · 0 0

Well, so-called "free-will', is very limited anyway, but many claim that it isn't. No one has complete free will. Oh, we can make choices, but they are all governed by something outside of that free will.

You are free to walk down your street naked. For a little while anyway. You can pick your friends and soon they will try to influence your free will with their free will and it usually becomes a compromise.

You are free to drive your car. But first you must get a license. Then insurance. Then pay for gas. Wear your seat belt. Obey the traffic laws. And if you do all these things there is no guarantee that while you are having a "free will" ride that the police won't stop you anyway. And once stopped, your "free will" is out the window.

Everyone has free will as long as they do what they are told to do. Free will is totally and absolutely governed by our environment and the rules of that environment.

2007-04-03 14:36:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

You can't explain a paradox, you can only accept it. There are many paradoxes in Christianity: Victory by surrender, free will and predistination, etc. I suppose if we didn't have free will, we wouldn't have any feeling at all. But if I had known free will before I knew without free will, I suppose I would feel complete dissatisfaction with everything, or complete satisfaction with everything. Maybe that's a way of describing the difference between heaven and hell.

2007-04-03 14:26:50 · answer #3 · answered by wassupmang 5 · 0 0

It would feel exactly the same. I would believe I was making choices based on my own will, but in fact everything I did would be predestined. Since I wouldn't be AWARE of that fact, it would seem like I had utter freedom to decide from moment to moment. As it seems now. So again, it would feel precisely the same as now. In fact, perhaps I DON'T have free will and I just BELIEVE I do. If I don't, I'll never know.

2007-04-03 14:22:30 · answer #4 · answered by choko_canyon 7 · 1 0

You are free to ask this kind of question and we are free to make our own definition. It can be proven because most of us may have the same answer but in different ways from each one. Some circumstances that greatly affect your present condition are caused by the environment that sorrounds you. Yet you have a choice to get out of it if you do not like to be in it. In your heart and mind you may even have to change the course of history. Only when you are afraid to get out of the box you will never see what is outside of it. Look for things that you love doing and create your way to it. Choose the road that you think that will make you enjoy the journey. God is not steering your life but giving you the right and freedom to run it your way.His condition is only to do it the right way and it will please him to guide you. You are born to create your own destiny and you are the only one who can shape it. If you fail, do not blame God nor anybody. what made you fail could have been the wrong judgement that you made in choosing a way. Get up and look for the right road. Learn from the reason why you failed. Treasure the path where you felt you,ve done it right. Do not be misled by believng in Divine Will. The will of God is only for you to be happy and by availing of all the resources he already have planted on earth. One of the greatest resources ever given by God to you are people around you whom you will gladly share your dream with by helping each other. But the destiny is yours to fulfill.

2007-04-03 14:48:29 · answer #5 · answered by Rallie Florencio C 7 · 0 0

It might feel extremely selfish sometimes. Whatever my system craves, I would go after it with no restriction. My appetites would have dominance. I would be a wild animal and follow the codes of survival. At best I would act and feel like a good pet, a dog for instance.

2007-04-03 14:25:59 · answer #6 · answered by ignoramus_the_great 7 · 0 0

Actually not exactly like a robot, but exactly like a computer.

You program parameters into the computer, it cannot think outside those given parameters, unless you allow it to. Computers have no choice, they are tools, the programs do what they are told, unquestioningly.

So too, we would be tools, for something with choice that would tell us what to do.

2007-04-03 14:24:16 · answer #7 · answered by Luis 6 · 0 0

salam, Not having free will means, that you have to be programmed by some being, you can say God. Because if you are not programmed right for a given condition, then you wont be able to survive, and ultimately you'll be finished.
If we assume that Programmer to be God, then we would be like angels, who have no power to decide right and wrong. You'll do what ever you have been programmed to do. You wont feel anything, cuz u wont know how to feel, cuz to feel something you have to have prior knowledge of that specific feeling.

Say you put your hand in hot water, you will feel hot. Your brain will tell you its hot. Next time you wont put your hand in water, cuz of the prior knowledge of it being hot, and hotness burned your hand.

If you wont have free will, you wont be able to think, therefore you may feel bad/good about things, but you wont know that its bad/good, cuz u are not thinking.
if you wont have power to think of your own, you wont be able to decide whats beneficial for you. therefore you wont live long if you have not been programed according to your environment.

2007-04-03 14:30:40 · answer #8 · answered by faiz_khan50 2 · 0 0

Not having free will is having a feeling that you must believe what someone tells you to believe, even though your common sense says otherwise.
What would it feel like ? Constantly having doubts about what you're told, and what your own mind tells you.

2007-04-03 14:27:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

if I didn't have free will, I wouldn't worry about what i did or what anyone else did because what happens is what happens and i can't do anything to change it. so I'd just sit around and get fat because that's obviously what i was meant to do. and if I didn't, than oh well, I would do something else.

it would be a very stressless and pointless experience.

2007-04-03 14:21:44 · answer #10 · answered by hobo 6 · 0 0

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