Sunday, November 25, 2012

Free "Will"?

So the talk I heard in church today was "God's will or my will; whose will is it anyway?"

Here we go, back to the "free will" debate.  And then I ran across a disturbing news article that argues evidence that there may be no such thing as free will.

     "The conscious decision to push the button was made about a second before the actual act, but the team discovered that a pattern of brain activity seemed to predict that decision by as many as seven seconds. Long before the subjects were even aware of making a choice, it seems, their brains had already decided."

and further

     "As humans, we like to think that our decisions are under our conscious control — that we have free will. Philosophers have debated that concept for centuries, and now Haynes and other experimental neuroscientists are raising a new challenge. They argue that consciousness of a decision may be a mere biochemical afterthought, with no influence whatsoever on a person's actions. According to this logic, they say, free will is an illusion. "We feel we choose, but we don't," says Patrick Haggard, a neuroscientist at University College London."

See the complete article here:  http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110831/full/477023a.html

So, if this is true, who/what is doing the choosing?  Is there even really a choice?  

Just as important:  NOW WHAT???




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