Is free will a myth?

[Peh]

Wright said:

Peh said:

I don't really understand where you are going.

You can't beat or break the laws of physics. Meaning, you can't move your pinky finger without willing to do so.

 

What if you dream of doing so? What if you dream impossible figures or situations? Is dreaming an act of free will or also a result of physics?

Everything is a result of physics. Dreams are a result of your brain and thus physical. I don't believe in metaphyics. Everything what you experience on this world is phyiscal.

What you actually see in dreams is the power of imagination. I am a lucid dreamer. Therefor I am pretty aware of what my brain can do and sometimes it still surprises me. Therefor I can fly in my dream if I remember to do so or being remembered to do so. I also notice that certain dreams during one night repeat several times. Because I am consciousness about dreaming, I also remember what I did the last time and can chance the course of the dream for the second time. It's still difficult to do so.

But what a brain cannot do, is imagine something it doesn't know.

If you never saw what a tree looks like, you won't be able to imagine one. What a brain can do, depening on the intelligence level is combining certain knowledge and create something new out of it. But that something needs always a foundation. It cannot happen without one.