pezus said:
Jay520 said:
pezus said:
miz1q2w3e said:
Jay520 said:
Your brain and soul stays the same. But you grow up in Joe's body. You see everything Joe saw. You feel what Joe felt. You have the same family as Joe. You grow up in the same house. As a baby, you're raised in the same crib that Joe was in. Your first sight is the same sight as Joe's first sight. Same height, weight, eye color, everything.
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I think some people misunderstood the OP. If you switch genetic factors AND environmental factors, what else is there?
Say you were switched with person from another country, you wouldn't even speak the same language, you'd probably be a different religion...etc You'd be who that person was going to be.
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Not exactly, since you still have your brain which is genetically different from Joe's.
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Exactly, and any decisions you make that are based on that different brain is out of your control. You didn't make yourself have a different brain. Your different brain is the sole factor that would make you different. |
Well, yes. But, like Badgenome, I don't feel like that's the essence of what having free will means. Free will to me means that you reflect on past experiences to make decisions so whether that is all pre-determined or not is irrelevant to how I look at free will. I've said it before but we are really just debating about semantics here.
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Exactly. Your brain uses the data it's given (which you don't control) and your brain processes that data (which you also don't control). You aren't controlling anything about yourself. You're just the focus of your environment.
