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Originally Posted by peacegirl
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Originally Posted by LadyShea
As I have stated, I think our "will" is constrained by our own unique neural makeup...the pathways our experiences and cognitive processes have created that makes us who we are and do what we do.
We can't make decisions against the decision our brain makes (tautology, I know) however we can feed the brain and add information- by thinking about something, reading something, discussing with others- which allows decisions to be changed right down to the time they are acted upon.
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Agreed. I wonder if there's been an attempt to formalize these concepts into philosophy. I am entirely out of my depths when it comes to philosophical study.
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So why can't you listen for a change, instead of talk?
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When I said "out of my depths," I meant it to say that I do not have the depth of experience regarding knowledge of philosophical studies. I am strictly a layman. However, I'm open to learning and understanding new concepts and areas of study, and my post was an implicit invitation for those more knowledgeable than me to point the way.
[Thanks] Clutch Munny.
I'll be perfectly willing to read your counter to the claim that Lessans' free will argument contains a modal fallacy, but you only scolded me for suggesting it, so I took up my own topic of conversation. "Sometimes, I'm just resigned to the fact that I'm not always a nice person."