Is free will a myth?

[Teeqoz]

Paperboy_J said:

Teeqoz said:

Did you will the electrons and chemicals to move in the specific manner required to make you enter this thread and post this post? If so, how? Are you sure the reactions and electrical signals just happened without you having any control over them?

But if he's not in control of them, then who, or what, is?  That's not a sarcastic question either.  I'd really like to know.

There's no person that's in control of them, his actions are just reactions to other actions happening in the world. But from each single person's point of view, it's indistinguishable from having free will, because you don't know that you've been affected by various things, and that those things have determined the outcome and the process and even what you are going to do next.

 

So nothing or noone is in control. It just follows the laws of physics. Even though you don't have free will, and don't have control over your own actions, that doesn't mean someone else have control over you. It's just that what goes on in your brain happens because stuff around you happens, not because you want it to.