Posted: Nov 14, 2017 5:35 pm
GrahamH wrote:archibald wrote:
Doesn't that support the idea that decisions are unconscious rather than conscious? Am I missing something?
Some people are happy with unconscious will. More a case of free xxx. See Conway defining it as no more than "not a function of the past". Nothing about will at all. To the extent he attributes it to electrons.
Yeah, but, that's not what he's saying. He's saying the opposite, that RP's are a red herring and irrelevant. If he were happy with unconscious free will, he'd be saying ok, that's RP's for you. On the contrary, he's into telling us that it's the conscious deliberations that are at the heart of free will!