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

by romansh ⌂ @, Saturday, November 14, 2015, 04:31 (3298 days ago) @ dhw

dhw “why have conversations at all?”-I get the feeling you don't really understand the issues.-Another common test is ... could have I done otherwise?-For a choice I might be able to see several possibilities or courses of action. I feel like I can choose any of them ... I might even at the last moment choose an alternative I had not previously considered. But as I make the choice the question remains could I have done otherwise?-Now if my choice and subsequent action is a result of cause and effect then it is difficult to say I could have done otherwise. The constituent parts of my body respond to the chemistry and physics that make up the various processes going on in my brain.


Complete thread:

 RSS Feed of thread

powered by my little forum