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| 08 Dec 2016 03:30 AM |
You can choose, but you were fated to one option. In the same way that a ball rolling up a hill cannot just suddenly roll upwards, a person cannot suddenly make truly free will decisions without an input pushing them that way. The inputs to a person control their outputs.
Imagine you have the option to choose two forks, one is plastic and the other is metal. You've always preferred metal cutlery and have used it all your life rather than the plastic ones, so due to your past experiences and your preferences (which themselves are controlled by the brain, which is basically an advanced computer), you'll choose the metal fork. To the person making the decision, it looks like they have the option to choose either, and it could go either way until they've made their choice, but remember it wasn't random; the choice was as a reaction to various facts (such as the present options, past experiences, and genetics, among others). Your hand cannot move to pick up the plastic fork in this case, because your brain would have to permit it. You brain will not permit it because of the mentioned factors. You're presented with the options, and are unable to choose until your brain has decided on the one it'll allow the hand to pick up.
Of course, it would be silly to say it's absolutely impossible to pick up the plastic fork, so there MUST be free will, unlike the ball which has no choice but to keep rolling down the hill, right? Not quite: In order to pick up the plastic fork, the brain needs another factor to overcome this mental block for the hand to reach for the plastic fork instead. Perhaps you look closer and see the metal fork is dirty, so you choose the plastic fork. This extra factor is the equivalent of someone coming along and kicking the ball back up the hill; it's one more factor that decide's the path you take. A number of factors, impossible to measure, determine your actions.
It's only possible to either do something or not: You cannot simultaneously pick up just the metal fork, just the plastic fork, both forks and neither forks. The one you choose is decided by these factors, which were decided by other factors, which were decided by other factors. Think about it: If you were doing something, you could say you have the free will to stop, but could you really without a new input giving you a reason to? Could that factor have existed without something else causing it? For example:
You're watching tv. Without a reason to stop, you don't even think of stopping..... How can you have the free will to do something your brain is giving you a mental block on? In this case, you stop watching because you can hear the kettle's boiled. Why did the kettle just boil? Because you set it to boil, because you wanted some tea, because the shop had tea bags on offer, and so on. |
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| 08 Dec 2016 05:08 AM |
| When you stop click baiting I will |
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| 08 Dec 2016 05:15 AM |
| Well i mean if you actually thought that some1 would give out 5k r$ then its your own fault for falling for it, lol |
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| 08 Dec 2016 05:18 AM |
Nope, I've been here too long to fall for bait as simple as that. You're new so I'll let this one slide. |
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| 08 Dec 2016 05:19 AM |
| This is not my main, lol but kk |
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