--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" <anartaxius@> > wrote: <snip> > > This experience and the research on how decisions are made > > in the brain throw an interesting monkey wrench into the > > concept of personal responsibility. The solution to this > > is to recognise we can still act as if we had free will, > > because that is the way it feels even if it is not true... > > Or, one could act as if we have free will because it is > obvious that we do.
It's *apparent* that we do. We don't know yet for sure (and may never know). Your call. You are suggesting that > we ignore our everyday experience in favor of *theories*, > told to us either by Bronze Age theorists or more modern > ones. Call me crazy, but I'm going to go with the obvious, > my own personal experience. Nobody's suggesting that we ignore our everyday experience. It's entirely possible to entertain the no-free-will theory without its affecting our sense that we do have free will. For that matter, even if it were to be *proved* that we don't have free will, it wouldn't change the sense that we do.
