Do you have free will?

It's an intense subject to touch upon, but I hope I explain it clearly hehe!

What do you think? Does it conflict with your own beliefs?

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[jtst1]

dude this is some deep shit, i love it. im only 15 i can understand what your saying to a level, cause my subconsiouse *sp* wont let me think any further...or mabye it will and im not trying, i dont know but im taking phsycolgy next year at my high school and i think i will enjoy it, any tips or anything for me?

[Blade376]

Heya - I didn't do psychology at A level and people I spoke to who did, did not enjoy it. But then again many people on my university course did. So i guess its a good way of trying it out before committing to a 3 year university course =]

[wizardneedsfoodbadly]

where i live there are black swans..

i think we do have free will...like you said we are still able to make choices...i am one of the people who is saddend by the whole chemical reaction thing...like there HAS to more to life then just energy bumping off each other...i believe that there is more than that.

[Blade376]

is that belief there is more? or just hope?

I mean, a video response I got on live video - was about an experiment that was done...where people where in brainscanners when they were asked to make choices on cards shown to 'em between things. And lets say they were shown 2 colours...(ctnd)

[Blade376]

...when they were asked to make a choice..before the part of the brain that sorts decision making flashed...another part of the brain flashed which went for the colour preference. so our conscious decision was already made by a chemical response..

[lisaaverill]

ehh.. i think this is the first of your videos that i havent really liked

[Blade376]

hehe too heavy? :P

[jtst1]

@chefshitpiece Lol yo dude that was a post from three years ago. But thanks for the advice.

[chefshitpiece]

@sTeVie4TV We are all unique. We are different from other species bcuz of evolution. WHY we evolved the way we did and they did not is a harder question. DO we have free will? Of course not. We do not really make 'decisions' or 'choices'. A decision is when two aspects of ourself want to take the driver's seat, and whichever one is stronger get's the wheel. You can never act in a way incongruent with your personality, but it is your DNA that ultimately defines that personality.

[chefshitpiece]

@wizardneedsfoodbadly Yes we make choices...choices based on our previous experiences which are coded into our brains by a process called NEURO-PLASTICITY! But even those memories are not like a tape recorder, they are filtered through our value system, again...a product of our neural wiring. B4 you ever learn your first lesson, your brain has determined HOW you will encode the memory of the lesson, anbd there4 WHO YOU BECOME~! On the up side...you are a completly unique creation.

[chefshitpiece]

@jtst1 I gotta tip for ya:

Your life is based on your decisions

Your decisions are based on your perspective of the world

Your perspective is based on your personality

Your personality is located in your brain(pre-frontal cortex)

Your brain is wired by your DNA

YOur DNA is the luck of the draw

There4, luck is everything!

There4, nobody is better than you! Congradulations!

[JOYOUSONEX]

The ultimate contradiction about "free will" is within the Christian religions. Ask a Christian if God knows everything, that ever was, is and ever will be. They must answer yes, or else he couldn't be God. If this is true, then God knows if you are destined to go to hell or not, doesn't He? So much for free will.

[CheeseGenius]

LOL at the length of the comments. Oh well. daidiaiksdhjksdhfkajasdkjsgfhj­ashfjskhfjdgfhjdbfkjdhjfkdhskj­fhdkjshfkdsjfdsfds. doomd

[sTeVie4TV]

What makes us do what we do? Why are we here? Science has no answers.. If we are just forms of energy -why have other species not developed in the same way? Every creature on earth unique - no one living thing is exactly the same. We are similars who behave in similar ways and we behave according to how our soceity is structured. We are mostly about programing and education. But we are all unique. Even those who watch Shane Dawson videos and respond with 'LOL' and 'Fail'.

[wesley111111111111]

(1.d) so do i believe in free will? i believe in determinalism, and consciousness. i could say that through our actions we can merge with consciousness, but any attempt made here would just be because of determinalism, and even merging completely with consciousness would just be determinalism, even if reality did not exist anymore. so maybe they are actually no different from each other, and consciousness is just a required and inevitable force, no different than gravity.

[wesley111111111111]

(1.d) so do i believe in free will? i believe in determinalism, and consciousness. i could say that through our actions we can merge with consciousness, but any attempt made here would just be because of determinalism, and even merging completely with consciousness would just be determinalism, even if reality did not exist anymore. so maybe they are actually no different from each other, and consciousness is just a required and inevitable force, no different than gravity.