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Subject: explaining our lack of free will Author: lark33i [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 07:12:38 06/07/01 Thu In reply to: An Atheist 's message, "RE: Free Will" on 19:53:36 06/06/01 Wed Well, in short, I like Hume's explanation of this. I think it's called Hume's fork. Either your mind is subject to the laws of cause and effect, in which case you would really have no control over the neurons and electrical impulses in your brain which determine your choices, and you lack free will. Or, cause and effect does not apply to your mind, and our actions are completely random, in which case we would not have free will. I kind of think that it's like a plinko board (this is pretty much the same thing mi chamocha said about God, but I'm applying it to humans). We have an inborn personality which will more or less determine how we react to a given situation. This is like the pegs in the plinko board, it determines what we are likely to do, and we really don't have much control over this. Then we add experiences into the equation and we find that after having an experience, based on whether it is a good, bad, or indifferent experience, which will effect our reaction to future situations. This is just like rearranging the pegs in the plinko board or adding new pegs onto the bottom of our infinitely growing plinko board which is our mind. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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Subject Author Date Information Processing Theory Flannel 08:42:45 06/07/01 Thu what exactly is "free" -- lark33i, 08:56:18 06/07/01 Thu Defining "Free" -- Flannel, 10:22:42 06/07/01 Thu The quantum flaw -- Finding the answers, 08:13:59 06/20/01 Wed The Case for Free Will An Atheist 22:08:30 06/07/01 Thu free will and determinism? -- lark33i, 06:26:12 06/08/01 Fri Damn You, Lark!!! -- Flannel, 08:49:34 06/08/01 Fri Curious: Read any quantum mechanics? -- Bizel2001, 22:39:13 06/27/01 Wed much more complicated -- mi chamocha, 03:49:12 07/11/01 Wed Please explain? -- Bizel2001, 11:24:21 07/12/01 Thu explanation -- mi chamocha, 16:25:06 07/12/01 Thu Wow... good post. (nt) (NT) -- Flannel, 12:04:35 06/08/01 Fri Keep In Mind -- An Atheist, 12:36:20 06/08/01 Fri uncaused? -- lark33i, 08:44:18 06/11/01 Mon Uncausality... -- Flannel, 13:56:25 06/11/01 Mon Why? -- An Atheist, 22:39:44 06/11/01 Mon Questions -- Finding the answers, 09:01:17 06/20/01 Wed Great Questions :) -- An Atheist, 13:44:28 06/21/01 Thu Why thank you -- Finding the answers, 21:39:30 06/22/01 Fri You've Got the Idea -- An Atheist, 17:49:30 06/25/01 Mon Hume's Fork mi chamocha 03:53:21 07/11/01 Wed reality simulation (as Flannel was saying...) omnifinite 20:20:06 07/20/01 Fri problem with this claim: quantum mechanics -- mi chamocha, 10:41:22 07/22/01 Sun Since wer'e talking quantum -- Lover of wisdom, 23:30:05 07/22/01 Sun physicist in the house -- mi chamocha, 04:41:37 07/23/01 Mon the law of non-contadiction -- lover of wisdom, 08:05:49 07/23/01 Mon the law of non-contradiction -- lover of wisdom, 08:10:25 07/23/01 Mon Addendum: Logic, the Uncertainty Principle -- mi chamocha, 08:43:42 07/23/01 Mon