Reasoning - the action of thinking about something in a logical, sensible way.
Reasoning requires free will to choose.
Free will is the capacity of agents to choose between different possible courses of action unimpeded.
Critical thinking - the objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to form a judgment.
Judgement - the ability to make considered decisions or come to sensible conclusions.
If you do not have free will to choose what reasoning is most logical, you are not able to have free thought to think freely to choose which reason you want.
No free will means no critical thinking and the person is not a free thinker.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Free will is a slippery topic that will never find consensus among humans - not even among scientists.
My take on it is that just because the will isn't 100% unimpeded doesn't mean it is 100% impeded. I agree with Dan Dennett that we do have some free will.
As so many philosophical discussions are, this appears to me to be more of a semantics problem.
It comes down to how we define "free will."
skado
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July 8, 2022
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr did not believe in free will and neither do I. Our subconscious brain interprets data and makes a decision based on past experience, preference, and mostly primal instinct. It makes this decision a split second before the conscious brain does so it is not a reasoned decision. This is why experiences are of great importance, they expand the well in which data is analyzed. So I can't go along with the premise. In those determinations I think men are primarily utilitarian while females are primarily security and gathering based (for home and children).
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