AProudLefty
Black Kitty Ain't Happy
In the article a case of someone with a brain tumor grabs a rifle and kills people. But everyone with a brain tumor does not go out and murder.
Depends on where it's located.
In the article a case of someone with a brain tumor grabs a rifle and kills people. But everyone with a brain tumor does not go out and murder.
The problem with scientific explanation is that human beings do not exist.
Depends on where it's located.
you're an ahumanist?......
I don't believe in free will. Our decisions are a product of chemical and electrical processes that we have no control over. It's the programming. We are each wired to do exactly what we do. That being said, there are so many factors that determine the outcome that we could make a completely different choice if one variable changes. So I think 'free will' is more like a random number generator than some choice 'we' make. Frankly, 'we' are just matter and energy.
In the article a case of someone with a brain tumor grabs a rifle and kills people. But everyone with a brain tumor does not go out and murder.
Correct. Because there are so many factors influencing that decision that it might appear to be a choice when in fact it isn't. Why do some people rush into a burning building at the risk of their own safety? Is it because they chose? Or is it because the negative impact of not doing that outweighed the risk for that person. Someone else would make a completely different decision.
did anyone make you start this thread or did you choose to?.....
you asked....."could they be right".......I provided the answer that makes the "no" obvious......I am not a free will denier.
As causal agents.
Huh?
Correct. Because there are so many factors influencing that decision that it might appear to be a choice when in fact it isn't. Why do some people rush into a burning building at the risk of their own safety? Is it because they chose? Or is it because the negative impact of not doing that outweighed the risk for that person. Someone else would make a completely different decision.
God does not exist! (atheist)
Human beings do not exist (ahumanist)
If we have no free will then no one made him start this thread. It was simply preordained because subatomic particles that came together to form him will always act that way at that point in time.
But now you are simply defining choice to not be choice. That is nothing but a philosophical black hole attempting to be bright sunshine.
I stated neither on this thread.
The problem I have with free will deniers is they have no explanation for what free action is. My decision to laundry on Monday at 2PM is just a function of a deterministic universe. That explains nothing.
sure you did.....I quoted you doing it.....I didn't even have to change your post......
I may have to ban you. Stalker.
But now you are simply defining choice to not be choice. That is nothing but a philosophical black hole attempting to be bright sunshine.