Is free will a myth?

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Eagle367 said:

Peh said:

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.  

But the entire point is you can believe it or not. It doesn't matter the same with religion because the physical can in no way prove or disprove the metaphysical in the same way you cannot prove or disprove God or a fourth dimension or extra dimensional beings or a fifth dimension or a tenth dimension. We are limited and will be limited and can only believe. If we had prove then the thing would be a fact and no believing would be required it would all be laid in front of us like an untangled ball of twine. So what I do is what I do and what am I is up for debate and whether this is my decision is up for debate and to how much extent chemicals and physics govern us is up for debate so it is a never ending conundrum about how everything works and what makes us tick and whether there is an us to begin with. For all we know we might be a complex simulation by beings far more intelligent then us and hence we become not even real in this sense

The thing is, we KNOW that our brains are controlled by chemicals and electrical impulses. And they follow the laws of physics. Those are facts. So unless you believe there is some metaphysical "magical" thing about our brains, then there is no room for "free will". It's controlled by physics, like everything else in our universe. It's harsh, but true.