1st July 2010, 10:07 AM
So what if our brains are responding to external stimuli, and so what if it's all basically following physical law. As far as I'm concerned, the fact that I AM all those processes in my brain is close enough to call that free will. That IS the decision engine after all. Besides, who wants to define "free will" as "completely random dice rolls"? I mean, your will is either deterministic, or totally random, and so long as that "determinism" is at least partly defined by my brain's decision making processes, that's good enough.
Besides, what difference does it make how we define free will? It won't change how we humans behave. At the end of the day we're the same as we started.
Besides, what difference does it make how we define free will? It won't change how we humans behave. At the end of the day we're the same as we started.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)