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Do humans really have free will?

>> No.4975816
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4975816

>>>/lit/

>> No.4975817

Yes. You chose to waste your life and family money on a fruitless pursuit that won't qualify you to drive a taxi.

>> No.4975819

Rigorously define free will, and after that you should be able to answer your own question.
sage.

>> No.4975820

we are all just machines of flesh and blood carrying out our genetic coding.

>> No.4975859

You should watch Sam Harris' lectures on free will being an illusion.

>> No.4975873

Human beings as a whole are an organism. Much like a fungus, multiplying, spreading spores, and becoming more powerful in the mean time, with finite resources.

We personally as the self have free will. But as an organism our path is already paved, in one direction or the other. Our free will, will manifest where that path takes us.

>> No.4975887

No, but we have varying degrees of control over our actions.

This video goes into fairly well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la31lOcbDHc&feature=related

>> No.4975907

>>4975812
Free will is so poorly defined that any debates about it go nowhere, people are always arguing completely different things do or do not exist.

What I will say is that however you wish to define free will humans have no more or less of it than an elephant, bacterium, or apple tree. The complexity of our brains does not negate the fact that they are systems of physical reactions responding to external forces. There are no supernatural elements that make a human brain fundamentally different from a crayfish brain.

>> No.4976011

>>4975859

I choose not to.