IIIIITHE1IIIII on 12 May 2012
| miz1q2w3e said: I assume by switching brains/souls you don't mean literally switching the organs, since part of your behavior comes from your brain makeup and chemistry, not just from your experiences...etc If that's the case and you just switched "souls", then I think everything would be exactly the same as it is now... I guess I don't believe in free will after all. I remember a thread that talked about something along these lines, about how your actions depend on you past experiences, and those depend on other peoples actions/experiences...etc all the way back to the beginning of time. I agree with this view, that the universe is deterministic. |
Exactly this.
If we assume that the brains looked the very same then there literally would be no differences.
Unless quantum effects plays a part, of course. But then we wouldn't even be certain that Joe would be the same Joe if we remade the exact same scenario several times. So in this case randomness affects the free will, and you can't be certain that you'll choose what you actually want to choose each time, suggesting a random will rather than free.
