Kantor said:
Level1Death said:
Jay520 said:
I personally don't think humans have free will. I believe humans actually lack the ability to 'decide' their actions. Sure, humans appear to make their decisions, but one has to realise that every 'decision' we make is based upon our experience of the world, which is based upon external factors which we have no control over.
One person's brain is composed of the same atoms as any other person. Barring any genetic mutations, which are uncontrollable anyway, humans are more or less born with the same state of mind. The difference in each individual is caused by the unique 'experience' that each individual goes through.
We make decisions based on what we know. Our knowledge originates from external stimuli. Our brains are clouded by our limited perspective of the world. We don't choose what we percieve. We just percieve what we come across. These perceptions are then combined with other perceptions & innate instincts and our brains uses those [external] factors to form what we call 'decisions'.
With all that said, I can confidently say that every choice/decision is absolutely determined by factors out of our control. If if we have do have some control over our decisions, which we don't, one cannot deny the presence external stimuli as a large factor in affecting our choices in life, thus, affecting our personality.
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So if I wanted to kill some one, I could just blame it on factors out of my control?
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Not really, because the jury has no free will to decide whether or not you're guilty, and the judge has no free will to sentence you. Hell, I have no free will to say this.
It all sounds far too complicated to really work. It implies that you could travel forward in time, because anything that anyone will ever do is already set.
I think the big decisions in life - when you marry, whether you commit any crimes, where you work - will be largely decided by upbringing, genetics and other exposure, but little things like whether to eat corn flakes or coco pops and whether or not to scratch your back are pretty much entirely down to free will.
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Chemical signals in your brain determine all the little things. How much has your craving for chocolate been satiated determines whether you pick corn flakes or cocoa puffs, and scratching your back is about how sensitive your nerves are and how much of a signal from your nervous system that your brain is willing to tolerate
I may not necessarily believe this, but the determinist perspective can explain all decisions whenever
