Free Will: another take on it (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, June 09, 2015, 14:24 (3244 days ago) @ David Turell

If we admit to free will we admit to something immaterial, which certainly has theistic implications:-http://www.oldguardaudio.com/2015/06/07/do-we-have-free-will-prager-university/-"So, what we have here, therefore, are two different types of things: an immaterial mind and the material brain. You are the thing that has the brain — you are not your brain.-"Now look, even if you were the world's foremost brain expert, and you knew what was happening with every electron in someone's brain at a specific, particular moment, you still wouldn't have a clue about what's going on inside that person's mind. Surgeons can have access to my brain, but only I have access to my mind.
This is what makes you human and not a machine.-"Psychology, the study of the mind, is not reducible to physics, and biology, and chemistry. Yet, there are many materialists — people who believe that physical matter is all that exists, that the only reality — including every thought, every feeling, every mind, every will, all of this is totally explained in terms of matter in motion, simply physical phenomena. These materialists believe that we're no more than robots and that free will is an illusion, a myth.-"Now, why do they believe this? Because they understand that the moment they acknowledge that free will exists, that there really is an immaterial you beyond the physical realm, that there really is a mind, not just a brain, then there has to be something non-physical that accounts for our non-physical minds.-"Now when you exercise your freewill and you choose to think about all of this — you're gonna probably reason — just like I did — that there is a Great Mind that accounts for the origin of your mind.-"But again, that's your choice — it's evidence of your free will."