Free Will: a new study, with timed reaction (Introduction)

by David Turell @, Sunday, May 01, 2016, 21:06 (2888 days ago) @ romansh

romansh: We can define free will how we like. Our thoughts, choices, actions etc are not independent of cause. (Unless someone can bring some evidence to the table to the other).
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> We can be sceptical all we want. Defining free will as something else, is fine; we can carry on discussing angels on the head of a bin.
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> But the problem of everything we do being a result of cause does not go away. - I agree. The cause of our debate is an interpretation of the time the brain takes to tell us what we are experiencing and it does fill in data to help us to make independent choices. But we seem to pursue knowledge of reality accurately, and I can choose which cereal I want at the grocery using a biological sensing and interpreting machine.


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