| blkfish92 said: I don't always profit on my decisions. |
First of all, the question is not wether in the end you actually profit on a decision, but what your brain was expecting/betting to be the more profitable decision.
And of course, "profit" is a misleading word. It can of course also be a decision of what is "the lesser of two evils".
And the profit isn't always obvious. One could for example claim that someone who gives money to a homeless person disproves the theory. But that's not the case, for that person gets a profit as well: for example, feeling like a good person for helping the poor.
Personally, I have big doubts about free will as well. In computer sciences I learned the neural network model that is used for artificial intelligence. The basis is a very simple yet elegant mathematical model for how neurons work, the brain's smallest units. Based on this successful and plausible model, it makes sense for me to consider the brain a rather deterministic kind of computer. It's the sheer amount of neurons and synapses that makes the brain so complex and hard to understand.
On the other, the first question might be "what is free will"? From what I can read on Wikipedia, different sciences have different understandings of that phrase.
