Is free will a myth?

[Peh]

deskpro2k3 said:

Teeqoz said:

I've been doing a bit of research lately (not professionally, just reading through stuff that was already out there), and I found myself convinced that what we call free will is in essence an illusion. This sort of conflicts with what I want to be true, but rationally, it just makes sense.

 

When all comes to all, our brain transmits signals through chemicals and electrical impulses, and each single action that happens is caused by one or more other actions. Everything we do is a result of factors that we have no control over, thus free will doesn't exist. It's sort of hard to comprehend what this implies, and it's a mindboggling concept though, but what do you guys think?

 

PS. Keep in mind, this doesn't mean everything has a predetermined outcome and that everything is moving on a set path. It just means that you (and I, and everyone else) don't actually have a say on what the outcome is.

 

We must go deeper.. deeper than those drain signals, chemicals and electrical impulses. Our brain is made up of atoms, and those atoms is made up of electrons and neutrons but even deeper than that is quarks..Still even more deeper...Higgs Bosons.. and.. deeper still? Photons? At what point are we different from the air that we breathe and the light that we see?

 

What do you expect to find there? First we differentiate between organic and unorganic materials. The difference in both lie in the moleculs and chemical compounds.

Look at how the DNA is made off. And than compare it to air and light. If you go only by atoms, you won't see a difference, because this world we live in is made of matter and energy. But at some level, the difference occur at how it interacts which each other.