A Sense of Free Will: the consciousness quagmire (Introduction)

by romansh , Wednesday, September 02, 2015, 13:50 (3370 days ago) @ David Turell

With the constraints you impose I can understand your viewpoint. I think it is a rather tortured approach ... 
Well personally I thought this was perhaps overly simplistic rather than tortured. It is simply the result of someone who believes in cause and effect. No more no less.-> I'm just not inclined to dig in that deeply. Why? Well, my training is as a bio-mechanic, working with humans as biologic machines, interfering with them by the use of chemicals, etc. It is difficult to leave that mindset.-Again this is not very deep ... simply a result of cause and effect. But in a sense you are right. Our biases and past mind sets do win. Having said that I can't see how having training in biomechanics etc is incompatible with cause and effect and a lack of free will.