Posted: May 20, 2017 7:01 pm
romansh wrote:DavidMcC wrote:
Now, that's where you go wrong. Being compatible with the laws of physics allows for INDIRECT determination of one's will by the laws. This allows for us to have a choice, rather than be the slave of our environment.
We are slaves, if that is the word you want to use, to the processes that go on in our brains.
Your free will is compatible with being a slave to these processes.
For me, being a slave to these processes is a strange use of the phrase free will.
I don't care about god given or supposedly god compatible free will. You can argue with James about that one should he care to pop by.
This is an interesting comment. It assumes a duality between brain and "self." There are a lot of problems with this explanation on the face of it. Maybe a little more explanation is in order to clarify the duality presented.