Think You're Operating on Free Will? Think Again

Re:Think You're Operating on Free Will? Think Again by dasil003 on Friday July 02, 2010 @03:32PM (#1482091)

Absolutely true, however it's a bit overzealous to jump from starting to understand how the brain works to materialistic assumptions about the nature of consciousness of free will.

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Re:Think You're Operating on Free Will? Think Again by a-priori on Friday July 02, 2010 @04:37PM (#1482271)

See, from my perspective it's overzealous to assume that the conscious mind is not materialistic in nature.

With a question as ill-posed as the nature of consciousness, what's reasonable and what's overzealous depends entirely on your perspective.

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Re:Think You're Operating on Free Will? Think Again by dasil003 on Friday July 02, 2010 @05:09PM (#1482378)

Yes it's overzealous to assume either way. That's why it's philosophy not science.

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