Free will: Dennett says not disproven by current science (Introduction)

by David Turell @, Saturday, January 17, 2015, 21:38 (3358 days ago) @ romansh

David I can accept this from Coyne:
> >> Anthony Cashmore:
> >> "Free will is defined as a belief that there is a component to biological behavior that is something more than the unavoidable consequences of the genetic and environmental history of the individual and the possible stochastic laws of nature.
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> Rom: Funnily enough when I first discussed free will on this forum, people on insisted that we had consciousness in the definition.
> 
> Either way by Cashmore's definition do you think we have free will?-Yes, because the statement clearly implies I can willfully override any automatic genetic or environmental issues, in fact any other influences. Do you interpret it differently?


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