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RE: Unconscious Determinants of Free Decisions in the Human Brain
It warms my heart to see other people taking the question seriously about the incompatibility between 'free will' and quantum uncertainty and determinism... specifically that any assumption of indeterminacy cannot be proven, by the nature of it!
Lol I like this sentence. Way better than "it happens when it happens"!
Btw, I think there are some research going on about the point-of-no-return when it comes to decision-making, which is kinda interesting :)
The thing that really gives us free will is information. It's a part of the process that even the subconscious does not control. The risks that must be taken to acquire new information are a decision based on your knowledge though.
But even then, your information-banks have already decided that they need to acquire new data somehow, of course they can't know what will come. Yet even still, sometimes you just somehow know that some random thing is going to produce a useful new chunk of data which will change your decision processes.
I think it's pretty funny how anti-determinists like to portray determinism as though it makes everything a machine, even the precious 'self', and as though this somehow desecrates it. Yet at the same time they assert that AI will obsolete us! Which is it?