>>11411790What are your criteria for establishing that free will exists? How do you define free will? Most people who make these stupid posts define free will as randomness or absence of physical laws in the mind somewhere.
Randomness might be there, to some very small degree. But how does randomness make decisions free and not just random? And even if randomness = freedom, is there really something truly random? If reality is self-contained, that it contains everything that is real, then all impulses (to do anything physical) must originate within reality itself. Something must have caused that which you don't know how or cannot predict.
How could minds not follow physical laws? Of course, they do. We're made of physical stuff, after all. Unless you believe in the supernatural, then you can already rule out this possibility.
