Harris on free will: free will defended (Introduction)

by romansh , Sunday, June 21, 2015, 22:18 (3444 days ago) @ David Turell


> > Romansh: I understood free will is a concept I could not defend intellectually. It took a couple months or so to let go of the concept of free will.
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> Then how do you make choices, choosing between alternatives? This site is up again:
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Firstly that link is a quagmire of shoddy thinking.-How do I make choices? I get sensory inputs from my environment, my brain that has been shaped by at least 3.5 Gy of evolution and recent events carries out chemical reactions which result in actions.-Now I might think I am consciously deliberating what action to carry out, but I suspect that is simply a reflection of those pernicious chemical reactions.-How do you make choices David? Independently of your brain chemistry?