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[Anonymous No.12413059]

If I have free will, then why couldn’t I will myself to get out of bed this morning?

[Anonymous No.12413082]

>>12413059
You don't have freedom of will; you have freedom of action. That is to say: you can do what you will, but not choose what you want to will, for this is determined.

[Anonymous No.12413118]

>>12413082
Well how do I bring my will closer to my rationality, and do what I know should be done?

[Anonymous No.12413267]

You can't control your circumstances. That would make no sense, such things are up to fate. You can will yourself to do very immediate concrete things like get out of bed.

[Anonymous No.12413317]

your inability to get out of bed justified your depressing thoughts, its literally self justification.
You feel good about being right in feeling like shit and acting accordingly

[Anonymous No.12414112]

If I have free will, why can't I fall asleep when I wantto

[Anonymous No.12414147]

>>12413118
If you had a reason to get out of bed, you would have. Free will is bullshit. Action is born out of necessity. When you make it so that it has to be done, it will be done.

[Anonymous No.12414268]

>>12413059

I or anyone and anything else can only prevent you from doing what you will but not from willing what you will. Consider that it is neither your will against your lack of will nor your will against the determined world, nor even your will against the random world, but your will against an other's will.

[Anonymous No.12415615]

>>12413059
That's because you really don't want to. Free will is the ability for humans to choose between good or evil actions. By this definition, it's limited to what humans and what an individual is capable of. You can't just will yourself to fly or to will the sky to fall. Free will =/= omnipotence.