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Originally posted by googlefudge

My computer makes many choices all the time.

However it has no more free will than I do.

Free will doesn't exist. Get over it.

You chose to reply to my preposterous post.

I am now choosing, as we speak, to reply again to the words you [so] quickly chose.

I've decided to accept your recommendation.

As of this moment, I'm getting over my ignorance.

Thank you for your help.

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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
You chose to reply to my preposterous post.

I am now choosing, as we speak, to reply again to the words you [so] quickly chose.

I've decided to accept your recommendation.

As of this moment, I'm getting over my ignorance.

Thank you for your help.

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There is an illusion that we have free will.

It feels like we make choices and have free will.

However the fact is that our minds are a product of our brains.
Our brains are collections of neurons operating mechanically, electrically and chemically according to the laws of physics.

If you give a brain in a certain state a certain set of inputs it will follow the laws of physics and output a result.

There is no free will there.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
SP, the very wardrobes and refrigerator contents

of the people residing in the same cities and towns negates

the simplistic claims you've chosen to uphold.
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you have just given two examples that support me. fashion is a great example of people fitting in with their local culture. food in fridges is also very similar (of coarse there are variations, as there are many variables) if you go to 5 supermarkets in your local area they will sell pretty much exactly the same stuff, you pop into a supermarket in france its not quite the same, you pop into a supermarket in japan and its a whole new world.

Originally posted by googlefudge
There is an illusion that we have free will.

It feels like we make choices and have free will.

However the fact is that our minds are a product of our brains.
Our brains are collections of neurons operating mechanically, electrically and chemically according to the laws of physics.

If you give a brain in a certain state a certain set of inputs it will follow the laws of physics and output a result.

There is no free will there.

Thank you for your help.

Originally posted by stellspalfie
you have just given two examples that support me. fashion is a great example of people fitting in with their local culture. food in fridges is also very similar (of coarse there are variations, as there are many variables) if you go to 5 supermarkets in your local area they will sell pretty much exactly the same stuff, you pop into a supermarket in france its not quite the same, you pop into a supermarket in japan and its a whole new world.

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