Free Will, Consciousness, Identity (Identity)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Thursday, August 09, 2012, 22:10 (4271 days ago) @ romansh

Fact: As humans, we can only DO one thing at a time. This has been cognitively demonstrated time and again. We're not good multitaskers. 
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> Matt as much as I agree with your conclusion, I am not convinced by your argument. Are you suggesting I can't walk and chew gum at the same time? Perhaps it explains a lot. The right and left hemispheres can't work sufficiently independently for a piano player to play a chord? 
> -I am just now starting to get caught up, but you missed an important part of the discussion. When you're walking and talking with your spouse, do you consciously *will* the walking AND the talking? I argue no: Your conscious attention is going to be on the conversation. (Why else are they passing laws in the US about talking on the cell phone while driving, if we're not so darn "good" at *willing* two things at once?)-> Just looking at things from a deterministic or indeterministic point of view makes the concept of free will a non sequitur. 
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> Of course compatibilists will move the goal posts to allow the existence of free will. I would argue they miss the point completely.
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> Have fun with your forthcoming child. 
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> rom

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