Free Will: requires a properly functioning brain (Introduction)

by David Turell @, Monday, August 10, 2015, 20:00 (3153 days ago) @ romansh


> Rom: I have a sense of free will. So please don't answer the question in terms of my supposed free reasoning/thought. whatever. It is not my question.
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> If I (or anyone else for that matter) did not have a sense of free will, would my (or their) brain be functioning properly?-Since we all seem to have a sense of free will, I would think not.
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> Rom: You have been conflating a belief in free will with a sense of free will, every time I ask this question. 
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> Apparently not everyone can detect the same smells. So are the olfactory senses working "properly" in those that cannot smell something or have a very much higher threshold for detection?-I would think this is individual variation working properly.-> Rom: This is the sense I am asking the question. Similarly if someone does not have a sense of pain, is their nervous system working "properly"?-Thinking mechanically as a physician, I think not.


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