Is free will a myth?

[Teeqoz]

RolStoppable said:

Teeqoz said:

You answer my question first, and I'll answer yours. You have this odd habit of ignoring every tricky thing I throw at you. I ask you "Why doesn't this talk about physics make much sense?" and you just wave it off, and create another argument that doesn't hold water when you give it a little scrutiny. And now I asked you this one, very simple question which would reveal what you actually think, but you avoid giving ke the answer. I think you don't want to answer, because like I've stated earlier, you don't want to admit to yourself that free will is an illusion. But I don't blame you, it's not like you have a choice

 

Everything that goes on in your mind is chemical reactions and electrical signals. They are triggered by things you can't control (external stimuli), and you can't control the outcome of those chemical reactions. Given that there are zero things about what's going on in your mind that you can control, (neither when chemical reactions are triggered, what chemical reactions are triggered, how they are triggered, and what the result of those chemical reactions will be), there is nothing about your mind that you control, and you don't have free will. The chemical reactions control your behaviour, and you don't control the chemical reactions, thus you don't control your behaviour.

I edited my previous post.

If you want an answer regardless, it is yes, because I can choose to not call you an idiot. This doesn't break the laws of physics.

As did I. But if you do think you can control the chemical reactions in your brain, then there must be something metaphysical (maybe a ghost!) to it. There's no getting around that.