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How can I have free will, by todays deffinition, if my behavior is so predictable it is written in a text book? Why could I be blamed?

ewsintex 4 Aug 18
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Because you have Choice!

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Dont forget the quantum element. Neurons fire in your brain at levels that approach quantum scale, so predictability becomes problematic. It becomes more a percentage thing. Probably factors. And any good quantum physicist will tell you that outliers can occur in any quantum equation. The brain is beyond the physics of Issic.

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"Todays definition" of free will means what?

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The question you should be asking is, what is the matrix? No one can tell you what it is, you have to see it for yourself. Red pill blue pill, the choice is yours. LSD is a good way to see the strings that make you move, figuratively speaking.

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We have to define what we mean by free will. A computer like Deep Blue has free will of sorts, or appears to anyway. Although it’s moves are determined by factors outside itself, there are so many possible chess moves that the moves can often not be predicted.

But I don’t think that’s what we mean by free will. A necessary component to free will IMO is conscious awareness. You have to know you exist and you have to deliberately coax your body into a particular action for it to be free will.

Our bodies are not monolithic units—they are hierarchical systems, robotic in nature. These systems are set up to operate and survive for a long time without conscious oversight. They run on instinct, learning, or often on random chance. We generally don’t even know what our bodies are going to do. Most of our functionality is on a subconscious level.

Suppose you want your body to do something—say raise its arm to demonstrate free will. Your higher self has to communicate its wish to the body, and from there the body takes over. If the body is well trained it will raise its arm, but you will have nothing to do with the details of that action and you won’t even know exactly when the arm-raising will take place.

So yes, “WE” have free will but our bodies do not.

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You are speaking of determinism?
Where your experiences and choices in the past will be 100% predictive of future actions when all criteria is known

*de·ter·min·ism
dəˈtərməˌnizəm/
nounPhilosophy
noun: determinism

the doctrine that all events, including human action, are ultimately determined by causes external to the will. Some philosophers have taken determinism to imply that individual human beings have no free will and cannot be held morally responsible for their actions.*
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Your behavior can't be predicted. Nobody can know all the factors that influence your decisions even if there is no free will. People can make guesses or statements so general that they most probably have to be true. Sometimes a person knows you very well and can predict one of your next actions, but still there are no truly reliable method.
Maybe people are not justified to blame you, but does that mean there should be no consequences for your actions? Of course not.

Dietl Level 7 Aug 18, 2018
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I guess you couldn't help but write this.

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I find the question of free will to be problematic for a couple of reasons. If I assume I do not have free will, I am still making choices, from my perspective, and those choices still require decision-making based on internal and external factors. While one could say I do not have free will, it would not change the fact that I made decisions, it just explains how I made them. Starting with the assumption of determinism does not help if it is true and may negatively influence my choices if it is false.
Since my decisions may well be predetermined, I prefer the illusion of control over the feeling of being a puppet on reality's stage. After all, if I'm wrong, I couldn't help my belief, anyway.

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