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RE: Human Behavior And The Human Mind - Just An Illusion? - Inspired By Awesome Bjoerk

in #illusion • 8 years ago

Free will isn't an illusion. Saying "available options" implies options, and therefore a choice, no matter the deterministic input of reality that feeds us the data. To have consciousness, is to have free will, whether you exercise it or not, whether you operate unconsciously without using it or choose to develop more awareness of reality and yourself to expand your choices in life.

Behavior isn't an illusion, actions are created, again, either automatically through influences from society and our environment without our awareness, or because we actively choose one thing over another willfully in awareness of knowledge in reality.

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     8 years ago 

    Interesting thoughts @krnel

    I looked up what FREE WILL is on the Stanford Encyclopaedia and this is what I found :

    “Free Will” is a philosophical term of art for a particular sort of capacity of rational agents to choose a course of action from among various alternatives. Which sort is the free will sort is what all the fuss is about. (And what a fuss it has been: philosophers have debated this question for over two millennia, and just about every major philosopher has had something to say about it.) Most philosophers suppose that the concept of free will is very closely connected to the concept of moral responsibility. Acting with free will, on such views, is just to satisfy the metaphysical requirement on being responsible for one's action. (Clearly, there will also be epistemic conditions on responsibility as well, such as being aware—or failing that, being culpably unaware—of relevant alternatives to one's action and of the alternatives' moral significance.) But the significance of free will is not exhausted by its connection to moral responsibility. Free will also appears to be a condition on desert for one's accomplishments (why sustained effort and creative work are praiseworthy); on the autonomy and dignity of persons; and on the value we accord to love and friendship. (See Kane 1996, 81ff. and Clarke 2003, Ch.1; but see also Pereboom 2001, Ch.7.)
    More to read : http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freewill/

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     8 years ago 

    Behavior can be an illusion ... your perception of that illusion becomes YOUR delusion ...
    You are arguing semantics, you missed the point .... She was saying that that life, behavior etc. was an illusion, because it was not 'real', a facade ... "Created for the benefit of others ".. As in wearing a smile ....

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     8 years ago 

    You did understand me very well @jtstreetman Thats exactly what I meant. Thank you for explaining because I finally catch my plane soon :) and offline finally

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       8 years ago 

      /sadness ... Humming bird don't fly away, fly away ....
      Be Happy Sweetheart !

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       8 years ago 

      "Even if you decide not to choose, you still have made a choice"
      Rush ...

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