Free Choice

[Diablo]

(28-12-2012 08:56 PM)GodlessnFree Wrote:  I take the brilliant response that Chritopher Hitchens used to answer this question: "I have no choice but to assume that I do" (have free will).

On the other hand neursocientists like Sam Harris and physicists like Michio Kaku say that the evidence seems to imply that we don't have free will. According to neuroscience, thoughts arise in our brain several seconds before we are conscious of them, so we don't have absolute control over them. Michio Kaku also agres with that position. He says that modern physics proof that the future in a strange way "already exists" so the thought that you will have in one year at 3:00 p.m. is already determined.

To insinuate this is the case is to insinuate that understanding location of every particle in the universe for an extended period of time is possible.
Such a feat would require god like technology.