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Free will is the ability to act or make choices as a free and autonomous being and not solely as a result of compulsion or predestination. According to Freud's discovery of psychic determinism - the fact that much of our cognitive and affective life is unconscious - there is not much left for freedom of action.

Experiment on the correlation between electrical activity of the brain and movement (lifting a finger for example), reveals that the electrical activity precedes the movement by 200 milliseconds. It is proposed that the process of initiating a voluntary action occurs in an unconscious part of the brain, but that just before the action is taken, consciousness is recruited to approve or veto the action. In the 200 milliseconds before a finger is lifted, consciousness determines whether it moves or not.

Thus, our conscious mind may not have free will, but it can freely modify inappropriate behavior. This is the reason for the laws in our society to hold all of us accountable for our own action. It is suggested that we should update our idea of free will to mean self-control over our behaviour.

too much for me on a sunday afternoon

No free will, that is.

hahah

you mean I have no choice?

none at all?

not even a tiny weeny bit of choice?

does my hand really choose which chocolate to take from the shelf? or is it me

Marivana the II said:

[quote]No free will, that is.[quote]

Or, exercising the free will not to?

I think that not even taking your wheel for a spin will mean free will..


I think

You are at will not to stretch your hand to any chocolate
but give in to your electrics just for this only one sitting nicely on a shelf and teasing your pleasure receptors :D

I think that's called sadomasochism!



No, I am not going to take the chocolate!,


yes I am


No you're not! you have free will


and your free will says you're not to take it


and your free will says you should take it

alright, get someone else to take it for you and feed it to you! (COMPROMISE!)

hang on .....


isn't that a bit like tantric sex?


savouring it without touching it?

Don't quite get it myself...



What did you exercise to cange Saturday to Sunday?



...time flies in Valencia


(Brief interval till somebody thinks something about it.....

There is no more of such excuse 'Sorry I did not want to do this, I really did not mean this to happen...' More like 'I could not help it happen'

welll,

having a quiet day in today so quiet it felt like a sunday afternoon after stuffing ourselves at lunch! and eating biscuits too

Quid?


Something like: "I'm relaxing now, I'd rather not watch football/write something/do this/that.." is not exercising free will?

What is it then?

Blast!

You're typing too fast for me

The above on Marivana's post.

now, we're walking ground I know about.

I've never believed people do things unconsiously but gosh it's a very good excuse...specially if they've been horrible to someone... .

it's usually easier saying, oops, sorry,!

I suppose we could also go onto the blindfold theme here... "no, Idon't want to admit I did that, of course I didn't do that!" blindfold.

OMG!

Free willy.............I saw that film too he also had a choice too heavy for me on a Sunday

it's saturday!

re the wine thread

virtual wine!

and it has this effect!


imagine real wine!

I don't do virtual.......strictly a hands on sort of guy