Recent content by iRiis

Refusing to watch a video based on the grounds that you know what neuroscience is about. I apologise if you work in the field and do actually know what it's about. But you're next slapdash paragraph about "the thing about neuroscience" strongly suggests that you don't. I bothered to post because...

Perfect and well structured! First point you are making is about the difference between freedom and freewill; here you are talking about freedom under the guise of 'free will'. However, everything else I completely agree with. Especially the character in a book analogy, I made the same one...

Agree, I'm normally met by shouts and insults, I'll more than happily settle for this. But I'd say to you to have a think about what this "soul" is. Do animals have it? If some, why not all. If all, do bacteria, single cell. Ok they don't, so what does. I think it's very interesting to think...

That's fair enough then, I'm not going to argue against that, we've reasoned it out as much as we can and I respect your beliefs as I hope you respect mine. I just want to defend mine a little to what you have just said though. I do believe (and this is where we differ) that we always take...

Mrwoo6, a very social look at it - but completely correct (loosely) in what you say. :]

That's such a close minded view. You think the world's brightest minds are conducting experiments that your close minded outlook on science can think up off the top of your head? You are missing much in this world. Having said that, the linked video could be crappy; I haven't looked at it...

I do appreciate what you're saying but like I said we don't always make the best choice (ie going to bed might be better for us, just 'cos we make a bad choice doesn't give free will, the point is we would always have made that bad choice). You understand my point about freedom, so I won't go...

There's a difference between giving in to physical stimuli and "going against what our brain tells us" which you originally claimed. In the above case you would only not go to sleep if you brain told you it would be a better idea not to - whether it is 'correct' is irrelevant as we are...

Can you really? Can you give just one example of this having happened in the whole of human history? I don't think you can.

See my post, two up from yours. You believe yourself to be rational and away from religion, not controlled by "fate or destiny", however I think you are falling right into my category of exemplifying someone who is completely under the (evolutionary beneficial) guise of self deceit about...

Addiction is a good example of lack of freedom (in the sense of my post above). Again, I think these shouldn't be viewed directly in line of models of freewill.

Eurgh, read 5 pages, noting people I was going to quote and rebut and ideas I was going to share. However I am now exhausted, and will leave you with a tl;dr. --- We have as much free will as a rock. However, unlike the rock, we have a lot, lot more freedom. It's freedom, combined with a...