Is free will a myth?

[Teeqoz]

VXIII said:

Teeqoz said:

There being two options and you ending up on one of them doesn't mean you actually chose the one you ended up on.

 

You say there is a conflict between two wills/needs. You are hungry but you want to lose weight. Okay. But think about what those two needs/wills actually are; neurons and electrical signals and chemicals in two different systems. Whichever one wins is just the systems that is dominant there and then. Do you think you actually choose which system of neurons, chemicals and electrical signals ends up being dominant?

I think we need to agree that the human consciousness is more than chemicals and electrical signals. Edit: assuming that we can simulate thoso chemical and electrical pulses in a brain-like machine, I think it is logical to say that machine won't have a self awareness because of said pulses. 

To answer your question. Yes. Just like how emotions happen and being felt before the body start to produce all kinds of hormones which enhance the emotions further (fear first, the comes the Adrenaline) I believe the brain pulses which determine the "dominant system" happen due to our choice and will.  

Emotions do not happen before the brain starts them. You feel fear, which is just a certain part of your brain being active with electrical signals and chemical signals and receptors. That part of the brain then triggers a release of adrenaline, to increase physical and mental capabilities. So feeling fear first, before the adrenaline rush has nothing to do with it, because the feeling of fear itself is still nothing but chemicals and electrical signals in your neurons. I don't see why there should be anything else to the human conciousness than chemical reactions and electrical signals because there's nothing suggesting that there's anything more to it.