Is free will a myth?

domer76 said:
Better review previous posts, pally boy.

So, go ahead. Tell us, in your own words, why non-belief is bad.
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It has been explained over and over, in this threads and others, and you refusing to understand will not be helped by explaining it yet again.
 
Free will, is a debate philosophers and others have been pondering forever. Consider how can I be morally responsible when I didn't choose anything in my life. My parents are a given, the egg and the gamete, one of a hundred million that made me wasn't my choice, my genetic makeup was not my choice, neither was my home environment, birth place, birth position, or even historic period. We are accidents in the sense that nothing about the fundamental us was our choice, and today all of our so called 'free' choices are dependent on who we already are. Did I choose who I am given all the givens? That is being human. Freedom like complete consciousness are necessary human assumptions. Why am I the way I am? Why are you? Consider extremes, there are madness claims in court or incompetent to understand claims. We acknowledge these examples but we fear to tread too deep into determinism. This is why boundaries are required, values and rights and wrongs are needed for human society to prevail. Today with DNA and other studies of tribal humans and our primate friends, the issue becomes even more complex. Consider too millions of years of evolution and thousands of years of cultural evolution. See pieces below and book linked at bottom.




Book here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62555.On_Human_Nature


Edit: I forgot to add this book, it covers several of brain/mind comments in video.

'Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain' by David Eagleman

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9827912-incognito



"Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will." Joseph Goebbels
 
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As I understand it, by the time we get around to consciously deciding to do anything, our muscles have already been working at it for measurable time. We more or less have to believe we have free will, I suppose, at this stage in our development. Be a merciful thing to convince ourselves otherwise, though, as we move on to self-destruction!
 
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