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What does psychology say about free will?
Free will is the idea that we are able to have some choice in how we act and assumes that we are free to choose our behavior, in other words we are self determined.
Free Will describes our capacity to make choices that are genuinely our own. With free will comes moral responsibility – our ownership of our good and bad deeds. That ownership indicates that if we make a choice that is good, we deserve the resulting rewards.
Did Isaac Newton believe in free will?
Newton’s laws of physics simply don’t allow for free will to exist – once a physical system is set in motion, it follows a completely predictable path. According to fundamental physics, everything that happens in the universe is encoded in its initial conditions. Therefore you have no free will.
How important is free will?
Probably the best reason for caring is that free will is closely related to two other important philosophical issues: freedom of action and moral responsibility. We most often think that an agent’s free actions are those actions that she does as a result of exercising her free will.
What is the relation between free will and conscious mind?
Your identification of free will with conscious mind is odd since there is no relation either way, same as with intelligence. Schopenhauer ascribed th will to every creature, in a way even to inanimate objects, and characterized it as irrational unconscious urge.
How does intelligence affect free will?
Intelligence helps you act on your free will, allows you to see more possibilities to exert your free will. Practically, higher intelligence offers you more free will choices and, if high enough, it helps you tell the fake choices from the real ones. Share Improve this answer
Is it possible to have free will without emotions?
You can have a massive intellect (like a computer), but without emotions you will not exercise free will. However, there are actually a few high functioning Artificial Intelligence experiments currently active. Free will is your power to be able to have choices, to do what you want when you want and how you want it.