Free Will

[andrewducker]

Following an interesting discussion I had here I'm intrigued to see what other people think about Free Will:
[Poll #811650]

Comments

[andrewducker]

I believe there is a reality, but I also believe that our perceptions of it cannot be wholly unmediated.

So we do agree - I thought as much. There _is_ an objective reality, but we have no direct access to it, as everything comes in through our senses, which are flawed, and then are interpreted by our brains to produce our actual sensations.

[cangetmad.livejournal.com]

We sort of agree - I don't think it's possible to say perceptions are "flawed". They just are what they are. They alter things, certainly, and for the most part they do it for a reason - to conserve energy expended in perceiving (all that stuff about "seeing" actually involving a lot of outward projection from memory and presumption), or to conserve memory space (systematically discarding the actual words of a conversation in favour of remembering the gist). That, to me, as it relates to the equally objective reality of human capacity, isn't a flaw, but a fact of interaction.

[andrewducker]

I meant flawed as in "Is imperfect." not as in "Is bad." But other than that, yes, I agree :->