2024-10-02 at 1:54 PM UTC
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson
Non sequitur.
is it your behavior to always be a contrarian or is it your attitude.
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2024-10-03 at 1:36 PM UTC
That was a ghost not free will
2024-10-04 at 2:31 AM UTC
"Cutting brain hemispheres in half proves whatever I choose it does"
Kinda wild OP interprets this this way.
2024-10-10 at 8:09 PM UTC
Originally posted by Speedy Parker
No but you can, for instance, overcome a genetic predisposition for alcoholism, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and a whole host of medical/ disease related issues by making free will choices on diet and lifestyle.
Just as one can overcome behavioral predisposition by choosing to act differently.
A genetic predisposition to a factor is not the same as your genetic code that decides, for example; your eye colour or how tall you are, or everything else about your physical embodiment's.
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2024-10-10 at 8:53 PM UTC
Free will or limited agency as i prefer to call it, is only free within the boundaries of what information is being presented to us and our ability to process and understand it.
When you give people choice their decision is partly determined by how they interpret those choices, their past experiences, cultural background, emotional state, environment etc.
You think reading this was a choice and that is the illusion.
You didn't chose your sex, you didnt chose your body, you didnt chose your soul, and you sure as hell didn't chose to read this.
Absolute free will would be both impractical and nearly unimaginable. My best attempt at describing it would probably be something like imagining a display showing up in your brain every time you receive input. This display would present every possible outcome from interacting or not interacting with the information AT THE SAME TIME! The sheer volume of choices would lead to sensory overload, giving you the ultimate brain fart and making decision-making impossible. Its just not feasable.
