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Free will is doing (or at least imagining) what you want or feel is best. Your moods, whims, desires, and so forth can be controlled by inevitable subatomic phy
by Raphael 17y ago
Free will is doing (or at least imagining) what you want or feel is best. Your moods, whims, desires, and so forth can be controlled by inevitable subatomic physics, and those are synthesized by your thought processes to take a course of action. Since your brain wiring and chemical balance will be unique in a subtle way, that gives you a personality you can call your own. Imagine if everyone were required to change at least one line of code in their software before running it. The different computers would seem like they had all kinds of strange motives.
- jhancock 17y agoYour comment suggests that "free will" in a human mind is a result of small differences in the makeup/brain chemistry of the individual. Its my understanding that the 'free will theorem" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will_theorem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will_theorem is not that. It says "if we have a certain amount of "free will", then, subject to certain assumptions, so do some elementary particles." It may well be that both your perspective _and_ the free will theorem are at play.