Is the human brain completely deterministic?
If we don't consider the possibility of something metaphysical like the soul, the brain is just a serial of biological and chemical reactions.
Our decisions are based on external stimuli, hormones, memories and the way neurons are arranged.
Let's say that at this exact moment I think about cheese.
Let's then assume I could measure the position and velocity of every single particle in the brain the moment it happen and that I could perfectly record the exact stimuli I received that resulted in me thinking about cheese, I'm tempted to say that this copy brain would be guaranteed to think about cheese in exactly, precisely the same way I did when it happened.
Does the human brain just not "feel" deterministic because it's such a complicated system that it's not practice to measure perfectly every single thing that happens there? kind of like how if we knew the exact location and velocity of every single particle on Earth we could forecast the weather perfectly, but don't because collecting and processing this much data is impossible in the practical sense?
The only thing that doesn't behave deterministically is some probabilistic quantum fuckery, and that doesn't really sound like free will at all, it just sounds like a deterministic machine with some random noise.
If we don't consider the possibility of something metaphysical like the soul, the brain is just a serial of biological and chemical reactions.
Our decisions are based on external stimuli, hormones, memories and the way neurons are arranged.
Let's say that at this exact moment I think about cheese.
Let's then assume I could measure the position and velocity of every single particle in the brain the moment it happen and that I could perfectly record the exact stimuli I received that resulted in me thinking about cheese, I'm tempted to say that this copy brain would be guaranteed to think about cheese in exactly, precisely the same way I did when it happened.
Does the human brain just not "feel" deterministic because it's such a complicated system that it's not practice to measure perfectly every single thing that happens there? kind of like how if we knew the exact location and velocity of every single particle on Earth we could forecast the weather perfectly, but don't because collecting and processing this much data is impossible in the practical sense?
The only thing that doesn't behave deterministically is some probabilistic quantum fuckery, and that doesn't really sound like free will at all, it just sounds like a deterministic machine with some random noise.
