Free Will, Consciousness, Identity (Identity)

by romansh ⌂ @, Sunday, July 29, 2012, 17:41 (4261 days ago) @ David Turell

This learned article will help the discussion. We are responsible for our bad decisions:
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Responsible is one those funny words.-Is the Sun responsible for the hurricanes we have? Plainly yes.
Unless we want to point to the 90% of matter and energy we can't see and guess that it is responsible.-Is an eco system responsible for the flora and fauna we find in it? Is a particular animal (or type of animal) responsible for, or at least help shape, that ecosystem. Plainly yes.-Is a dog responsible for grabbing a piece of meat off a kitchen counter in an unguarded moment. Here things get a little murky. Plainly the dog did it. And in this sense is responsible. But here we are tempted to give it moralistic twist, but our better judgement prevails and we understand the dog has no free will.-And was I responsible for leaving the meat unattended on the kitchen counter? Plainly yes. But perhaps I should have known better. Here our better judgement fails us.-This is all very interesting but has little to do choosing my own will.


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