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If you accept that a brain is nothing more than a blob of electrical/chemical circuits that respond to stimuli, then the brain is entirely deterministic. You t
by Sohcahtoa82 4y ago
If you accept that a brain is nothing more than a blob of electrical/chemical circuits that respond to stimuli, then the brain is entirely deterministic.
You think you're deciding things, hence you think you have free will. But all those decisions are based on deterministic circuits, therefore you're not actually in control. Your ability to decide things and act in free will is an illusion.
- mort96 4y agoBut that's the thing, right? Those deterministic processes _are_ me. There is nothing more to me. So I think I'm deciding things because... I am. I am the only thing in control, because the only thing I am is a set of deterministic processes. If my deterministic circuits are making choices, _I_ am making choices.
- Sohcahtoa82 4y agoThen that means you don't have free will. Consciously, you might feel like you do, but it's all deterministic.
- mort96 4y agoBut "free will" and "deterministic" just don't seem at odds. It's not just that I "feel" I have free will. It's that I make choices freely, those electrochemical processes are _all there is_. Whenever those electrochemical processes reach a decision, that decision is purely a product of my free will, because those processes are me and I am those processes.