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Does free will exist?
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Yes, your constant evasion of the question is predetermined.So you think my answer to your question is predetermined?
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but that has nothing to do with your thoughts; if it did, we would be able to read minds by simply looking at the brain; and as you know we don't have the technology to do that. Got anything else?
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my pont exactlywat
Your brain and its neural pathways have nothing to do with you thoughts?
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Let me make sure I got this right: You are asserting that the brain and the neurons that make it up have nothing to do with thoughts?
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Not quite; I'm saying you can't read all of a person's thoughts by looking at his brain.
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My point is, we do have freewill, our thoughts aren't forced upon us.But sooner than you want to believe...
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Mas sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo.
How does that make thoughts not dependent on the state of the neural pathways that make up the brain?
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Why don't you explain how it does. Explain how it is possible to look at a person's brain and be able to tell exactly what he is thinking.
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Mas sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo.
Thoughts are a process resulting from the electro-chemical states of the brain and interrupting or altering brain activity interrupts and/or alters thought processes. There's hundreds of medical papers on the subject.
Now, if thoughts aren't a result of the state of brain states, then what are they, in your opinion? I have neuroscience on my side, so what evidence do you base your opinion on?
Quote me where I said it was or we're done with that line of nonsense.
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The mind and body (of which the brain is part) are interconnected. KIND of like the software and its programs are interconnected with the hardware of a computer.
Yet the RATIONAL SOUL (with intellect and free will) is not material, but spiritual.
God bless you.
Yet the RATIONAL SOUL (with intellect and free will) is not material, but spiritual.
God bless you.
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