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Old 02-03-2015, 11:25 AM   #99 (permalink)
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honestly though that example isn't a good one for lack of free will. which is what i think x was saying
I don't see a problem with it. If you can't carry out an action you desire because of some preventative brain function that is a loss of free will. Xurtio is just using a more complex theory and getting at the real roots of the issue.

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Behavioral determinists, like myself, or Sam Harris (to appeal to a known neuroscience authority) are saying that the evidence points to our will being constructed deterministically as a result of our biopsychosocial history.
@JWB - You don't think the events I made examples of when added up overtime are part of this biopsychosocial history of development?
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