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

by romansh ⌂ @, Sunday, January 18, 2015, 16:11 (3385 days ago) @ David Turell

David: 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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> > Rom: I must I don't read willfully into the definition. Are you suggesting willfulness is simply a result of the biochemical physics that is going on in our brains?
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> David: To your question, no, 'willfulness' is my control over my thoughts which I control in my brain. Thus I can override underlying biochemical influences, if there are any, which I strongly doubt. I'll bet you do the same thing.-So your reasoning for free will becomes, we have free will because we have wills?-So to answer your bet ... any will I do have is firmly rooted in my biochemistry, so it is one bit of biochemistry "overriding" another.


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