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Your description of rewiring the brain is an extra feedback loop, makes the system more complex but doesn't break determinism. Regardless, even if the world is
by roberttod 4y ago
Your description of rewiring the brain is an extra feedback loop, makes the system more complex but doesn't break determinism.
Regardless, even if the world isn't deterministic through e.g. quantum mechanics, throwing dice to decide your next turn isn't "free will" and doesn't make the case for free will any stronger.
- shrthnd 4y agoSuppose there are n number of hidden, indeterminate variables in your environment... "You," the individual observer, are free to choose the important variables to navigate life. Your "mind" is the thing which assigns value to hidden variables in your environment but "the mind" is not you... the "mind," from my perspective, is the mirror upon which we witness/experience every day reality/waking life, etc. If you think rolling dice is important, it is. If you think randomness will effect and experiment, it will. If you don't think randomness is important, it probably is... (a thing is defined by what it is not.) When you assign an indeterminate (X) value to randomness, this is chaos. If/when you think or realize chaos is an important part of free will... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Are you personally unable to select new variables or assign different "weights"? If so, I contend, you don't exist.