Does free will exist on Earth?

by Clockwise in Six Words Questions on Jan 29, 2013 | add favorite | T-shirt

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lillybrook says,

Of course it does. But just because your will is free does not mean that your action does not have consequence.

Sagacious says,

I would love to hear what sort of responses you got if you posed this question in a philosophy chat-room. The idea that our will is governed by something other than ourselves I find terrifying. I like to think that 'I' the individual exists and there isn't some alien thinking and controlling my thoughts because it completely screws with my sense of identity and reality.

To answer you're question, yes, I think it does, but I also know that I have done things without consciously planning them and wondered immediately after I had done that thing what made me do it. My idea on this is that some suppressed subconscious need was expressing a need that materialised in the action without me being consciously aware that it was going to happen. This is a classic situation where I wonder if we can ever COMPLETELY be (held) responsible for all our actions.

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