Reply #4: okay, this is where i start to go a little crazy... [View All]

[opstachuck]

i've disputed chaos theory as a justification for free will for hours on end with a good friend and i'm still not convinced. i see no reason why unpredictability has anything to with the decision making process. i think it just means that the environment and circumstances that contribute to a decision are too complex to be humanly knowable, which in turn makes free will an easy thing to accept because you can never actually prove that it does or doesn't exist. so, in my mind, this is a scientific question, not a human one. what, through the course of our trillions of years of evolution from a ball of gases would endow us with such a power? and if we have it then free will surely must have been slowly developing over those trillions of years. so at what point does that spark that defies everything that came before it begin? a ball of gases didn't have a will, it was basically just energy. i guess i'm just skeptical because i see no evidence for the evolution of it and because i meet very few people if any who seriously question whether it exists. i've told a few strong religious types what i think and they think i'm nuts or they give some answer that has nothing to do with logic and everything to do with what they believe - well, at least from my perspective.