2007-08-09 04:59:58 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
bigvol: No you didn't. Your choices were determined by the laws of physics acting on your previous brain state. You could not have chosen otherwise.
2007-08-09 05:07:04 · update #1
wefmeister: My brain made me do it. My brain states are determined by previous brain states along with sensory input. Given the same brain state and the same input you will make the same choice every time. That is not free will.
2007-08-09 05:08:56 · update #2
GUI: Neither do you.
2007-08-09 05:09:32 · update #3
Neicey: Not someone, the laws of physics.
2007-08-09 05:10:41 · update #4
What no free will! So you mean all those good choices I made in life was someone controlling me, great.
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Neicey: Not someone, the laws of physics.
So you are saying the Laws of physics effect my free will?
2007-08-09 05:05:07 · answer #1 · answered by ~Niecey~ 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Shades of BF skinner and 'radical behaviorism' !!! And, he didn't even believe in brain waves and thought(s). Instead, all behavior was learned, in a thing like a 'grain hopper' and one thing or another got 'paired up' with one thing or another and all behavior was merely a reaction to a stimulus. How sophmoric. By the way, this is the guy who used his girl child as his lab experiment to demonstrate that he could 'condition' her as "he willed". That is, if he didn't want her crying, he extinquished it via rewards and punishments. If he thought the crying really meant she was hungry, she got fed, etc.
Therein lies the fly in the ointment !! He used his free will to impose his reality and standards on the neonate/infant/toddler. Btw: she has been asked countless times if that experience harmed her; and she contends that it did not.
Maranantha
2007-08-09 05:21:30 · answer #2 · answered by Bill S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well if God is all the things most Christians think he is then there is no Free Will. However I like to think that most Christians are wrong and we do have free will.
2007-08-09 05:04:23 · answer #3 · answered by J.C. H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christians think that the soul imparts free will.
You'd have to explain how its an illusion.
2007-08-09 05:02:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The fact that you do not believe is 100% proof that we have free will.
We simply chose to believe you chose not to.
That is the VERY definition of free will.
Peace!
2007-08-09 05:04:03 · answer #5 · answered by C 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Were you free to write this question on your own?
Or did someone make you do it?
2007-08-09 05:05:54 · answer #6 · answered by wefmeister 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Really? I had the choice to accept Christ or reject Him. Just like you did. I chose to accept Him, just like you chose to reject Him. Sounds like free will to me.
2007-08-09 05:04:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
What makes you think we don't have free will? I had the CHOICE to respond or not to respond to this seemingly inane statement of yours, didn't I?
2007-08-09 05:03:34 · answer #8 · answered by bigvol662004 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋
im trying to deal but not by choice
2007-08-09 06:30:08 · answer #9 · answered by slopoke6968 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Meatbot, your name looks famililar - do you post on Scott Adams blog???
2007-08-09 05:21:36 · answer #10 · answered by Nea 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋