Free will - Music Banter Music Banter

Go Back   Music Banter > Community Center > The Lounge > Current Events, Philosophy, & Religion
Register Blogging Today's Posts
Welcome to Music Banter Forum! Make sure to register - it's free and very quick! You have to register before you can post and participate in our discussions with over 70,000 other registered members. After you create your free account, you will be able to customize many options, you will have the full access to over 1,100,000 posts.

View Poll Results: Does free will exist?
Yes 19 63.33%
No 11 36.67%
Voters: 30. You may not vote on this poll

 
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Prev Previous Post   Next Post Next
Old 04-04-2012, 10:32 AM   #11 (permalink)
Music Addict
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 1,711
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Rubato View Post
I'd say free will exists in those instances when you can't make up your damned mind, people just find it easier to rely on social obligations, natural instinct, their own experience ect. to make decisions for them. You find it when confronted with situations you're unfamiliar with and have nothing to base an expected outcome on, so yeah I'd say exists but it's a bitch nobody wants to rely on.
I'd say in those situations it's the natural instinct we base our decisions on.

I think 'choice' is a concept made up by humans to explain why we pursue one action instead of another, cause there really is only one outcome and no parallel universe. And free will is the human mind wanting to blame.

Also, what Il Duce said.

Last edited by midnight rain; 04-04-2012 at 10:45 AM.
midnight rain is offline   Reply With Quote
 




© 2003-2025 Advameg, Inc.