Am I simply the sum total of all my experiences and my biological makeup?

Poll - Total Votes: 3

Yes, there is no free will

No, we make our own fate

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Is each choice a make just a reactionary response to the sum of my chemical and biological makeup and every environmental experience I have endured since I remember?

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Tuscan · 70-79, M

I have always suspected that we only have the illusion of free will, every choice we make is based on the sum of experiences up to that point.

Challenger1 · M

@Tuscan But does not the very fact that our belief in whether or not we have free will changes the outcome prove that there is indeed free will?

Tuscan · 70-79, M

@Challenger1 I don't think it is possible to prove one way or the other. Until we have a better understanding of space/time itself and a workable unified field theory any argument either way could be refuted. I am quite happy to accept it is possible that free will is an illusion whilst at the same time acting on every decision I make as if I do in fact have free will. After all we are quite happy to apply a doctrine of duality to particle and wave physics which are mutually exclusive , so why can't we just live with a similar free will/predestiny duality.

Challenger1 · M

@Tuscan I like your last point there, it is valid.