10 May
2014
10 May
'14
9:44 a.m.
On 5/10/2014 1:36 AM, Dave Dyer wrote:
Current physics doesn't include any mechanism for "consciousness" or "will" to alter physical events that lead to things like neurons firing.
You either have to postulate a new state of physics that corresponds to consciousness, or accept that there is no such thing as free will.
Or just adopt compatibilist meaning of "free" as equivalent to "autonomous", as in Daniel Dennett's "Elbow Room". Brent Meeker