2007-08-23 03:47:20 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The answer is that it would feel the same as it feels now.....and anyway you don't have free will. It's an illusion.
2007-08-23 03:58:50 · update #1
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2007-08-23 03:55:21 · answer #1 · answered by phrog 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think it would feel like being hypnotized. Have you ever been hypnotized? I had the feeling that I could break out of it any time I wanted, but I didn't want to. I "decided" to cooperate with the hypnotist.
One of the most accurate descriptions I have ever read was in Harry Potter, where the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher put the Imperius curse on several students, including Harry. Sorry I can't find the reference right now, but the point is it sounded much like what I experienced being hypnotized. It feels good to just drift and let someone else make the decisions. The difference is, Harry decided to fight it.
So even if you felt like you had no free will, you still would have it, you just wouldn't want to exercise it.
2007-08-23 04:30:53 · answer #2 · answered by auntb93 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Having no free will might mean that I did not have even the ability to become aware of it's absence... i would "feel" like a robot which would in fact be the feeling of nothing at all.
I have free will and it's not an illusion, ( as you say. And yours is an opinion that is quite incorrect.) nor is it a lack of freedom but rather it is that I am a victim of freedom. I have no choice but to express my freedom.
There is no God to restrict ones freedom of choice or movement. There are only the natural limitations of necessity to keep, the requirement of oxygen and food and the obedience to the laws of gravity and motion. These are the things we are bound to keep. God is nothing.
"Man is condemned to freedom." Nietzsche
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2007-08-23 07:50:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You'd probably describe everything as feeling the same when someone else asked you. All your sensory information would be the same, you just wouldn't have control over your own actions.
Not that we allow people very much control over their own actions any more anyway. You probably wouldn't notice the difference at all.
EDIT: I don't think it would be like being an animal at all. Animals are capable of independent action in defiance of other animals. I think it would be more like being a machine, incapable of acting at all unless directed, only being capable of acting in the manner that you were directed, helpless if you were given bad directions, and immobile but perpetually trying if you were given impossible directions.
2007-08-23 03:58:14 · answer #4 · answered by Just Jess 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would feel exactly is things feel right now. I have a sense that I have choice, but no way to prove it.
I might be predetermined to be where I am right now. You may be as well. You might be predetermined to be a non-believer by the Creator of all things, and I may have been chosen to be one of His 'elect.'
You might be doomed, with nothing I say making any difference. You might be doomed, with this condition being predetermined.
2007-08-23 04:02:55 · answer #5 · answered by super Bobo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If such a thing was so, then if you had no free will, you would not think enough to know you didn't have it, you would not have the ability to make choices or to even know enough to ask the question! :D
2007-08-23 04:06:16 · answer #6 · answered by Holly Carmichael 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You'd be as an animal, guided by instinct, unaware of other alternatives to each situation.
2007-08-23 03:56:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
it could be like the ants society where there no internal fighting but just follow the rules of the tribe
2007-08-23 03:59:26 · answer #8 · answered by kimht 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Innocence? Ask our animal friends.
2007-08-23 03:56:05 · answer #9 · answered by jaicee 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nothing because you'd never know. You wouldn't have the will to find out...
2007-08-23 03:53:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋