Ourcellves? (Identity)

by dhw, Tuesday, April 08, 2014, 16:03 (3670 days ago) @ GateKeeper

GATEKEEPER: Feedback is the word that comes to mind. The cells make you. Your parents, or life as a child, set up the framework. You then, to the best of your ability take care of the cells in you and thus they respond in making you. This feedback interaction will the influence your choices.
You will be able to make choices within a given probability set and not outside of it. And you are not "free" of anything. But you can, over time with hard thinking, change that domain.-A belated welcome to the forum from me. I don't know how long you've been following these discussions on free will, and I need to stress that on this particular thread I myself am trying to follow the logic of just one particular, materialist hypothesis. I am not arguing in favour of it or of any other hypothesis, though I am hoping to develop the argument further.-In any discussion, it's important to define terms, and the definition of "free will" has caused much disagreement between Romansh and me. It might be interesting for both of us to know which of these definitions, if either, you would accept, and above all why.
 
Romansh: "The ability to act or to make choices independently of the environment or of the universe."
 
dhw: "An entity's conscious ability to control the decision-making process within given constraints."-Once again, thanks for joining in.