>>12714128>Really a lot of this conversation comes down to the silliness of the phrase, 'free will.This.
>>12714168>Memories are caused by outside influencesAnd we can choose which memories we're prehending and co-creating.
>Do you believe that 2 brains in exactly the same state would make different decisions?Do you believe that two photons in exactly the same state could make different decisions?
>you would have to propose some agent that is outside the physical realmNeither the physical or mental are primary, change is. Relations are not secondary to what a thing is, they are what it is.
>>12714283Every choice and decision we make is causally influenced by prior occasions of experience, and causally influences future occasions of experience.
>>12714317Even atoms have free will - a degree of self-determination and novelty. We make decisions of diverse experiences, feelings, intuitions. We are interdependent entities of a single organism.
>>12714325That conception of free will is based upon a nonsensical notion.
>“The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of existence; every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe.” -Whitehead>>12714327God is not omnipotent~
>>12714424>without any other external influenceStopped reading there.
>then tell me what it isI lied.
>When the indeterminism is limited to the early stage of a mental decision, the later decision itself can be described as adequately determined. This is called the two-stage model, first the “free” generation of ideas, then an adequately determinism evaluation and selection process we call “will."Free? Got it. Will? Got it. Free will? Literally.
>because someone else told youOf their own free will, adding an aspect of co-creation to our future occasions of experience.
