BBC: Horizon - Consciousness and free will

[Slimebeast]

CrazyHorse said:

Slimebeast said:

ultima said:

Slimebeast said:

ultima said:

Slimebeast said:

ultima said:
Do you believe in god, Slimebeast?

Yes. 

Any specific religion?

Christianity.

Doesn't christianity claim that there is such thing as free will? By your train of thought, nothing is ever random, everything has a cause. This would mean that there is no such thing as free will. That contradicts your religion...

You forgot free will that emanates from the soul.

Not according to the evidence from the BBC program!

Yeah. I think very much our behaviour, and thus many of our decisions, is determined by genes and programming (or you could also say, the actual structure and electric state of the neuronal network).

But as I believe conciousness is unique to souls, there's some indepence of the soul as well. I believe a computer can never have consciousness like humans have.