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> It makes you honestly question the idea of freewill. Hell two months in any psychology course will have you questioning that. We are truly biological beings
by diogenes4 3y ago
> It makes you honestly question the idea of freewill.
Hell two months in any psychology course will have you questioning that. We are truly biological beings first and rational agents second.
- nvahalik 3y agoThe middle ground here seems not only theologically sound but biologically coherent as well. We have a constrained will. Free will has never and will never exist since we are finite beings. We have a _constrained_ will that is boxed in by a number of factors: time, money, biology, knowledge, circumstances, etc. Theologically, that will is also constrained by our nature. There are certain spiritual things we cannot do in the same way we cannot do certain physical things.
- anon84873628 3y agoBy the time your internal monologue makes a decision, the neural network for it fired long ago. Non-physical thoughts don't guide the physical processes; they are simply a side effect of it.