>>8073991

> objectively

Shit meme

Cogito ergo sum, you faggot

Nope. We're just flesh computers running slightly complex survival/procreation algorithms. Obeying instructions encoded in binary in our DNA.

Which is fine, because if all we are is objects, then that's all the free will we could ever hope to have- will that was predetermined by a part of our physical selves.

>>8073995
What a terrible post.

So, you're saying that we can't have free will because we have brains that work like they're supposed to?

>>8073991
>our neurons which objectively have no choice but to fire in response to voltage differentials

Wrong. You can force your neurons to do that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_(philosophy)

You experiencing choice right now

>He started a thread on free will while not defining it first.
Let us await the flood of imbeciles trying to justify/deny "free will" according to their own redefinition of it.

>>8074308
this

>>8074025
> le OP damage control :^)

>>8074205
>>wants to prove someone wrong
>>uses philosophy

Get out.

Unless you want to believe in another layer of exitence, "the mind", which for now is metaphysical, there can be no real freedom of choice, it's all responses to previous stimulations, some random processes, noise, and "legend code" ie - instinct.

On the other hand, physics used to believe that things had to touch in order to interact, then we descovered the atom, and that nothing really touches, ever, so we thought, ok, then, fields can create force, and now we see that force is actually just the space bending.

What am I saying is that it's not completely ignorant to beleive that we are still very far from the real models of the universe, maybe we're trying to explain this world when all we see is shadows in a cave, there's no reason for us to believe that we can truely understand what is going on.

this post will remain invalid as long as you don't define what /free will/ actually means here

its time to admit what people have been afraid to say out loud for a while now: doing a BA is harder than doing a bsc doing a BA is really, really hard. Its much Harder in fact, than studying maths, For starters,we cant copy each others answers like you do in your coursework, and once you learn something uve learnt it – it’s not so easy for us. we have to chug a bottle of wine and weep over Sparknotes very basic summaries before we can even fathom choosing our essay titles, let alone writing out introductions. BS students can just Google their answers or ask matt on the boys Whatsapp what he got for question 1a We get given the choice to write our own essay title too – isit some sort of reverse psychology where our tutors want us to write an essay title to show autonomy or will they take offence if we dont pick one of theirs It’s much harder than finding out what 'x' is when it comes to coursework, ure always going to get higher than ull come back with a smarmy 90% and we can tell you think our hard earned 71% is rubbish, but it’s all relative you may have beaten us by 19% but let’s be honest: it’s not really your own work In BA we have to go and right arguments. We have to actually form ideas out of words, and do so in a coherent and convincing way. If our marker is in a bad mood because his cat’s shit on his first edition of oliver twist we wont know about it, but our grades might be lower. Your marker, on the other hand, cant begrudge you for regurgitating a mathematics equation – two plus two will always equal four Its obvious that bSc students think BA students want to be them. You ask us: “What’s the point to your degree The answer is quite honestly is that you’re intimidated by us. So don’t think we want to be you just because we skim past your inaccuracies which we get bang on point everyday – itsharder to be a BA student because people take humanitis for granted but think that being skilled at science is a gift.