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by Phithagoras
3683 days ago
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Certainly! I'm not arguing for any supernatural quality of consciousness. Instead I'm suggesting that free will may be defined as our (apparent) ability to influence the cycle of stimulus-response. We are (or at least I am) conscious, which seems best explained as a product of this cycle occurring. Consciousness may have a top-down influence that can affect the deterministic chain of events. I suppose the answer lies in whether or not we are responsible (even in part) for physical changes in the brain. Which seems hard to prove... Edit: impossible to prove if we consider this a self-referential first order logical system |
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