| SkepticallyMinded said: It's not only in science that this concept of free will is assessed. Philosophy has pretty much rejected this view, or at least failed to provide sufficient support for it. |
I don't think anyone here suggests that will is completely free, I think it's obvious that your personality is shaped by outside influences. It's an ongoing progress from birth to death. I also don't think you have a free will to do anything you want, even if you are able to imagine doing anything. But OP suggests that we can't even make a choice ourselves.
I was watching first half of Croatia - Portugal match and thought about this stuff more. So it could be that while watching the game, my brain is one second ahead processing what I see before I'm aware of it. What if my consciousness then actually plays an important part on how these chemicals and signals react? You know, without my awareness brain wouldn't be able to make most of the information it gets.
Heres a real life example of why I agree with RolStoppable:
When I was a teenager my father had this problem that he was sleepeating. True story :D He would occasionally wake up hungry but decided not to eat even if his instincts told him to eat. But when he was a sleep he would eat, I did witness this myself while watching a movie and trying to talk to him while he was eating. So, obviously his subconscious was able to give him signals to move and crab a sausage, but without him being conscious he didn't have an opportunity to choose not to eat.
ah fuck it, the match continues, I'll continue this thought later if anyone is interested...
