/sci/ - Science & Math

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I don't know if YOU have free will (I tend to think so, but I have no definitive proof) but how does someone say that ANOTHER PERSON doesn't have free will with DEFINITIVE PROOF?

I am definitively certain that I have free will. Step by step, thought by thought, explain how someone could VALIDLY think otherwise about me?

The general faggotry seems to go something like this;

Everything is apart of casuality (this causes that)
You are apart of Everything
Your actions have a cause

While that is mostly true (at least for us human beings at this step of the causality chain), all because my actions have a cause doesn't mean that I don't get to CHOOSE my action. I'm hungry so I can either CHOOSE to eat something or something else or nothing right now (or even starve to death).

To say that my choice is the result of some sort of predetermined system in my brain or whatever is an NON-DEFINITIVE claim.

You'd have to analyze my brain and prove that. Or if you say that the universe is just a bunch of particles hitting each other you'd have to prove that. It only SEEMS that way but it may not be the case.

Do not use quantum mechanics.