Educational

Author Topic: Neuroscience and Free Will  (Read 307 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Calavera

  • The Intellectually Deficient of the Aspie Elite
  • Elder
  • Dedicated Postwhore
  • *****
  • Posts: 3735
  • Karma: 358
  • Gender: Male
Neuroscience and Free Will
« on: December 28, 2013, 08:24:23 AM »

Offline Jack

  • Reiterative Utterance of the Aspie Elite
  • Elder
  • Maniacal Postwhore
  • *****
  • Posts: 14550
  • Karma: 0
  • You don't know Jack.
Re: Neuroscience and Free Will
« Reply #1 on: December 28, 2013, 04:16:04 PM »
No comments?

Offline Parts

  • The Mad
  • Caretaker Admin
  • Almighty Postwhore
  • *****
  • Posts: 37470
  • Karma: 3062
  • Gender: Female
  • Who are you?
Re: Neuroscience and Free Will
« Reply #2 on: December 28, 2013, 08:23:51 PM »
I would not equate a lag in the time between when the conscious mind is informed of a decision after the brain made it a lack of free will.  I do find it unsettling that a scan could tell me what I am going to do before I consciously do but it was indeed my brain that made the decision which my conscious mind is part of.
"Eat it up.  Wear it out.  Make it do or do without." 

'People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.'
George Bernard Shaw

Offline Calavera

  • The Intellectually Deficient of the Aspie Elite
  • Elder
  • Dedicated Postwhore
  • *****
  • Posts: 3735
  • Karma: 358
  • Gender: Male
Re: Neuroscience and Free Will
« Reply #3 on: December 29, 2013, 12:03:05 AM »
I would not equate a lag in the time between when the conscious mind is informed of a decision after the brain made it a lack of free will.  I do find it unsettling that a scan could tell me what I am going to do before I consciously do but it was indeed my brain that made the decision which my conscious mind is part of.

It all boils down to whether or not you, having chosen something at one point in time, could've chosen something else instead at that point in time. If no, then that's determinism regardless of whether the decision made was constructed in the brain or not.

I've noticed many people have opted to redefine "free will" so that they could fit it with the idea of determinism, but that's just running away from the key issue, which is that traditional free will and determinism cannot logically be reconciled together. And free will itself is illogical anyway.

Offline Calavera

  • The Intellectually Deficient of the Aspie Elite
  • Elder
  • Dedicated Postwhore
  • *****
  • Posts: 3735
  • Karma: 358
  • Gender: Male
Re: Neuroscience and Free Will
« Reply #4 on: December 29, 2013, 12:03:35 AM »
No comments?

No, I let the video speak for itself. :P

Offline Gopher Gary

  • sockpuppet alert!
  • Maniacal Postwhore
  • *
  • Posts: 12671
  • Karma: 652
  • I'm not wearing pants.
Re: Neuroscience and Free Will
« Reply #5 on: December 29, 2013, 03:41:39 PM »
I have no free will. Mom makes all my decisions for me.  :lol1:
:gopher: