Jamy’s Reviews > Free Will > Status Update

"Having a gun to your head is still a problem worth rectifying, wherever intentions come from." I agree; but the physical action of rectification must still be backed by a voluntary thought. Our thought. That specific thought. If it's not then why mustn't it mean that our thoughts are like Schrödinger's cat: that we simply don't, and can't, know what state it will present itself in. Yet we are not lunatics. O.K. Most

O.K. So if we can't deny responsibility for our intentions because it belongs to us subconsciously--since it originated in our brain, then can't we also claim the same for free-will: that our thoughts and intentions originate in our brain, thus it belongs to us. I might have confused myself here because I have come to a bizarre conclusion: there is free-will but it doesn't belong to us.

"A voluntary action is accompanied by the felt intention to carry it out, whereas an involuntary action isn’t." But since our thoughts don't belong to us, neither would our intentions. Doesn't that justify crime and devalue virtue?

"There will always be some delay between the first neurophysiological events that kindle my next conscious thought and the thought itself."
So a hypothetical, perfect machine of brain function detector and interpreter would allow someone else to know my thoughts before I do.
That would make them a predictor, or worse, a seer, a "knower" of my every move thereby rendering me a eunuch at the poker table. Got it.

"Some moments before you are aware of what you will do next—a time in which you subjectively appear to have complete freedom to behave however you please—your brain has already determined what you will do. You then become conscious of this “decision” and believe that you are in the process of making it." So whatever I choose to do, my brain will have decided it for me in advance and I can not disrupt this.

"Free will is actually more than an illusion (or less), in that it cannot be made conceptually coherent."

My ignorance has swallowed this pill without much side effects to its well being.