Post by Deleted on May 20, 2017 18:21:48 GMT -5
Deep Thought is a broad category that has been stretched to cover all kinds of aspects that perhaps are not entirely suited to it.
My thoughts on the freewill issue - a perennial issue in philosophy for two and a half thousand years if not longer - are (roughly)
1 The question of choice
2 The question of moral responsibility
3 The question of how far we are capable of independent action
Those are the three areas of the freewill debate that most interest me because of their obvious implications for society, crime and punishment, psychology and similar fields.
One obvious fact that (I will dig up the source where I found it and post it - probably on Monday because I have to go out tomorrow for a friend's birthday and may not be back until late) makes the whole idea of free will at least dubious is that our brains transmit a neural signal BEFORE we take a decision. This has been measured and is an INVARIANT response. So before we 'make our choice' the choice has already been made for us.
