Re: How much "Free Will" do we really have?

Donald Hamilton wrote:
> How Human Imagination Effects our "FREE WILL".
>
> "Free Will" is our basic human right to make a decision one way or the
> other BUT the animal (genetic & hormones) and human influences
> (cultural, religious, political, etc) that are ingrained in our psyche
> pretty much decide the way we will think and act. Most people will
> live within the constraints of their religion and society but some
> will not and risk suffering the consequences what ever they may be
> (great or small).
>
> How much of a "free will" do people really have? Are we free to make
> decisions without being influenced by outside or physical and mental

> constraints?

We don't have free will in the sense that there is a true "ME" that can
make our own decisions. We can generate effects that are not casually
related to out meme and gene programming, but "we" don't have control
over it. Its an internal random generator.

The Mean Meme-Gene Darwinian Machine.

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Understanding, is itself an emotion, i.e. a feeling.
Emotions or feelings can only be "understood" by
consciousness. "Understanding" consciousness can
therefore only be understood by consciousness itself,
therefore the "hard problem" of consciousness, is
intrinsically unsolvable.

Physics is proven incomplete, that is, no
understanding of the parts of a system can
explain all aspects of the whole of such system.