Is free will a myth?

[Eagle367]

Peh said:

Eagle367 said:
Well in your sense I think metaphysics delves into that and the hard part is proving or disproving anything since you can't carry out scientific evidence on having a soul or not. Yet when you die, theoretically if all of your cells are brought back to life, you would live again but practically that does not happen and science has a difficulty explaining death so until death is explained I don't think we can truly know free will exists or not. Is the chemical process the causal phenomena or is it caused by something we can't fully comprehend. Are the chemicals just a physical messenger of the body to do the action or are they the ones creating the action directly? I believe in souls so I think free will is there at least in that metaphysical sense but it's not there in a political sense. But that's another discussion altogether

Metaphysics and that soul stuff are those things which people like to hold on to without even knowing what it is. That make it difficult to debate with people like dualists and such.

But I know something that crushes that thinking, and that's the split brain experiment. Get a read on it. It's awesome :)

I know about that but it still insunates two consciousnesses insidw your body not where it comes from. Does a cell have that or what do the cells do to make it happen. Can psychology be explained through chemistry and physics? If those things are true then what is dieing and if it is prevented in a physical sense by keeping all cells alive, then do you still die? Add also to that fact that every cell in our body gets replaced after 6 months then what is self? What is an individual itself? A passing moment or something, a bond keeping the self together that we cannot perceive? How do we have memories? Was the you a year ago the same you now if every atom of your being is different? What is sentience then?