Does free will exist?
I don’t want to appear like a precursor, but the question of “Does Free Will Exist” has found its niche at being pervasive in my quest to determine what will or what will not give rise to free will. Many people feel that free will is not only existential, but it has an apparatus. Many find it to be perspicuous, but I stand to question their calmness. How do you find calmness in a mystery plot?
Although the question of free will oscillates in an atmosphere full of intricate hypothesis and theories, I’m still able to stay somewhat objective and able to impregnate my dogmatic approach on the question of free will. I would like to share some basic ideology in hope that the feedback generations answers that people have really gave thought to like I have.
My first question: Can you define Free Will? I will be the first to say no for two reasons 1) many differ not only on its existing, but on its definition as well; so no set definition mean free will can be whatever I call it. But I’ll go one step further; try defining “Good” while you’re at it. Then maybe you will get my drift. 2) The reason why Free Will has conversation rights is because we have personified its existence yet if you were to detach the personification rights from Free Will, then you would have nothing but letters with no meaning. So we the human give life and meaning to something that has nothing. I want others to understand that you can attach a word to anything breathe life into it.
Let me also share with this audience how one philosopher name Rene’ Descartes relates the meaning of Free Will. He identifies the faculty of will with freedom of choice; “the ability to do or not to do something.” Webster definition is not too far from this description of free will.
I oppose this question to you as well: If free will is about choice, having the ability to do or not to do, and if we always have free will, then why is it when paraplegia make the choice to walk, either through their silent thoughts or verbal speech they find themselves amputated from the will of standing erect?
I know, I know you’re going to say it’s because their spinal as been severed, but let me remind you while you ponder, that being paraplegia has nothing to do with their free will; how could it. For the ones that fight to keep free will alive these people function very well other than they have lost movement; so its seem that so-called free will takes a presence in allowing other choices to be made just not in their quest to walk.
If i may throw one more dog bone out there, you have people in veggie states, comas, ect yet were is their free will when their being held hostage by their own body. So is free will full time, part time, only in the summer, or is it just a word attached to an illusion…………..