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RE: [PHILOSOPHY] Free-Will or Determinism?
Why would natural selection have favoured the ability to recognize choice, if you could not act on it ?
Why would natural selection have favoured the ability to recognize choice, if you could not act on it ?
I could think of many examples from the animal kingdom, where it would be favorable for an agent in terms of survival if it had the ability to choose and ignore its 'nature'. But maybe consciousness has an evolutionary advantage in the way that it gives us with the illusion of responsibility and control, which comforts us into believing that we are in control of what we will do ahead of time.
Anthony Cashmore, professor in biology, argues that free will is an illusion emerged from consciousness, and that consciousness has an evolutionary advantage of giving the illusion of responsibility.
“Whereas the impressions are that we are making ‘free’ conscious decisions, the reality is that consciousness is simply a state of awareness that reflects the input signals, and these are an unavoidable consequence of GES [genes, environment, and stochasticism]”
http://www.informationphilosopher.com/solutions/scientists/cashmore/
Your mind would not have any chance of knowing in ad vance that i would reply to your post, even if we both were based on complete determinism. Therefore you chose to reply.