The podcast above looks at a recurring theme on my blog: FREE WILL.
Bottom up vs Top down: intentions and ideas which are abstract, which makes thing move. So its intention.
Biology is used and profits from the molecular storm, adaptive selection.
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Is free will an illusion? No, we do what is best to do; we act freely on the decisions we make.
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My take: yes and no, very complicated because what happens when we do not say the truth, or what is truly happeneing. I was taught a lesson by a so called friend who said to me after I described a situation he say, “well we didnt see it that way, as a bully.” So maybe to the keen individual observer yes but when groups come into play we might fudge the truth as long as we do not get caught.
Just like not even being able to view or talk about some things we all know but cannot see, like the military industrial complex.
Why we do things? Adapt, die or starve.
therefore: why do we develop an intention we must look to motivation it gets even more complex when we have developed people and groups that their civilization is better or preferable. Sometimes the freewill is an illusion higher than black and white and sometimes the actions and words make and outright different outcome from what is hypothesised and then the pressure to keep invalid hypothesis as scientific truth.
therefore, scientific truth and lenes are only good as our devices to see and test.
As a result, at 1:20 am while I write this, many will think hes gone mad. why is he not sleeping is not this a waste of time?
Well to me no, you yes. As a result, sometime actions have consequences and actions have resposibility but if you can get away with it most of the time they will. for example the trolly question, if we sacrifice one the rest of us can still live and prosper, is why groups cannot be trusted, but individuals can based on their merit, upbringing and morals.
So, maybe human activity will only delay an action potential like pulling the trigger of the gun when you lose fiath in humanity and evil held in group lies for control of all of our action potentials. Repression of human action can be hard and make many ill. for example I love ferrari’s and lamborgini’s but will never drive one because economic inability and see the waste of money one would be because of limits to our action potentials such as speed limits and unkept roads.
So, yes…..it is interesting
There is no definitive answer but its all in the wiring and adaptive selection and stimulation.
So what makes a prision gaurd kill mass people while an indivdual of same group would hide some in their basement to aviod killing fields.
today Imigration in USA can be seen as like this but used a political pawn which discredits this. therefore selective immigration policies should be practiced as not to destroy your groups laws and culture. This is not racist it is just knowing too much change and too fast cause instability which is not good.
I see the difference in Canada from when i went to publicv school to when I drop my children off. Big difference but gradual change to the ultimate goal of functioning immigrants and refugees into mainstream Canadian Society.
SO, yes so much is around us that their is no free will. or thier is but it is hard to achive in a life time. So yes sometimes and sometimes no.
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