Posted: Nov 13, 2014 6:07 pm
Spearthrower wrote:
Is free will just the conscious act? Is it the deciding element? Does it have to be recursive so what we are conscious of deciding?
Infinitesimal time differences that are so small so as not to be noticed have been measured between a decision being made and it being known. The fact it cannot be noticed is what allows free will to be assumed in the first place even though it is obviously an illusion. There are also physical and legal and moral and psychological restrictions to what we can think or do