Does free will exist?
Does free will exist?
First of all, I need to say that, even if it is ignorant, I even do not bother to read philosophical speculations.
I am interested in empirical premises. I've heard that there is some research, where scientists, monitoring activity of a person's brain, are able to predict which switch (s)he's going to switch, before (s)he does, or maybe before (s)he's conscious about the choice. This implies that our decisions are results of some chemical processes determined aside of our "free choice" and so called free will is only an illusion, a way in which alternatives presents to us, while the choice is made already deep in our minds unconsciously and maybe even deterministically. Does anybody know this research and could cite it?
Since I am constantly busy, I really sucks in the theory, so could anybody say what's the Marxist stance on free will if any?
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Free will exists because of chaos.
What do you mean by chaos?
So determinism is a linear function right? Take the past conditions and you can predict the future. To a certain extent. Like weather predictions- we see determinism in fluid dynamical systems and can say based on these conditions tomorrow will probably be cloudy or something, but because we can't go waaaaay back to the initial conditions of the system to as infinite degree, we can't predict what's going to happen that far ahead. I think our free will is similar. There is such complexity that things go to infinity or zero. Within that infinity we have patterns, we have nodes where things have a tendency to happen in an orderly manner - the Nietzsche concept of the eternal recurrence or Joseph Campbels perinealities, and then we have chaos that is totally baked into the system. That's why I think we are free. Of course we are also determined! But not infinitely determined. We have infinite length in a finite area.
My conjucture is that something is deterministic or not, nothing in between. And as was mentioned above, determinism may be not unique or not at all factor in the discussion about the free will.