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4/29/2013 11:08:21 PM
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The heart is an example of something that has no free will. All it does is pump blood around the body constantly until it malfunctions or it stops receiving commands, it has no choice in when it stops or starts pumping.
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Everything in your body is designed to keep your brain alive because that is your consciousness.
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So, isn't the brain also an organ like the heart? And if it is, does that mean that free will doesn't exist?
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No . . . not necessarily. We're arguably more than just the sum of our bodily organ systems. It's not like terms such as 'free-will' or 'determinism' are very definitive, cut-and-dry.
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Edited by Circadian Wolf: 4/29/2013 11:30:09 PMIt's a matter of perspective. You could argue all humans do is react to their environment and there's no free will involved but I feel there's more to it than that, for example a human can reject what the body expects it to do to. How much one can reject ones subconscious is a matter of willpower, which determines how much free will a person has over their body. If you're looking at statistics free will would be about 12% of our brain maximum.
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[quote]How much one can reject ones subconscious is a matter of willpower, which determines how much free will a person has over their body. [/quote] Are you saying that free will is the ability of the conscious mind to ignore the subconscious mind?
