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Stanford neurobiologist says there is no such thing as 'free will'
American Thinker ^ | 10/21/2023 | Eric Utter

Posted on 10/21/2023 8:22:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 10/21/2023 8:22:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I will choose a path that’s clear.


2 posted on 10/21/2023 8:23:19 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind

If you choose not to decide
You still have made a choice

Freewill
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=urBpdyFCZmo&pp=ygUOZnJlZSB3aWxsIHJ1c2g%3D


3 posted on 10/21/2023 8:26:27 AM PDT by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hey Stupid,

Me calling you stupid was a choice, free will at work, got it?


4 posted on 10/21/2023 8:27:56 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Trump has all the right enemies, DeSantis has all the wrong friends.)
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To: dfwgator

2nd post on this thread. That’s encouraging.


5 posted on 10/21/2023 8:29:58 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²e a truck through this law.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Thinking themselves wise, they become fools.


6 posted on 10/21/2023 8:30:43 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yeah? Well, He’s an idiot


7 posted on 10/21/2023 8:30:44 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: SeekAndFind

A person can become a new creature. In fact, they can become born again.


8 posted on 10/21/2023 8:32:15 AM PDT by boycott
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LOL!


9 posted on 10/21/2023 8:32:43 AM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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RE: Yeah? Well, He’s an idiot

LOL, did you say that out of your own ‘free will’? Or did the chemicals in your brain impel you to say it? LMAO !!


10 posted on 10/21/2023 8:32:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I read this and got a headache.
That was not my freewill so...he must be right?


11 posted on 10/21/2023 8:36:43 AM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope. )
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To: boycott

Through Jesus Christ.


12 posted on 10/21/2023 8:37:08 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: SeekAndFind

Is that so?! He’s not God or a god!


13 posted on 10/21/2023 8:37:49 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: SeekAndFind

People know what lies are, but they believe them anyway. And when some one writes a book saying that is OK, you can be assured that the book will get lots of press.


14 posted on 10/21/2023 8:39:20 AM PDT by Portcall24
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To: SeekAndFind

I can argue both sides of this debate.

My first question would be; We know placebo’s work. How do they work if consciousness does not influence the final result?

Our free will is limited to the attributes available at the level or frequency of consciousness that we have attained.


15 posted on 10/21/2023 8:39:30 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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Through Jesus Christ.


Yes. Nothing is more documented in ancient history than the life of Jesus. Yet, these know-it-all professors know little about him.


16 posted on 10/21/2023 8:41:13 AM PDT by boycott
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To: SeekAndFind
Another effort to remove personal responsibility for one's own choices and actions, using Biology.

The abuse of Science to try and ease the guilt of sin, will not work. It will still be there under all the lies.

17 posted on 10/21/2023 8:43:32 AM PDT by Moorings
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To: SeekAndFind

Yeah. But judging people for right wing views is still allowed


18 posted on 10/21/2023 8:45:17 AM PDT by BRL
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In all my reading and listening to various religions’ viewpoints, I only recall one woman saying God made a mistake when he allowed free will.

I mutter so many times “well, thanks to free will——
that serial killer abducted little children”
“those knockout game teens got away with it again—witnesses shut up”
or “the man who pushed the woman onto the subway tracks to get killed ran away.”

The human race commit so much evil they are again as in the time of Noah. IMO

A priest who wrote a book about his experiences as one of the hundreds of exorcists said the average person got the wrong idea from such things as the movie The Exorcist. “They think the power of Satan is overwhelmingly enormous and strong and an equal opponent to the goodness of God. But Satan is a small part of God’s creation and nowhere near being equal.”

Hope he was right.


19 posted on 10/21/2023 8:45:21 AM PDT by frank ballenger (“My job is to inform, not to convince.” St. Bernadette Soubirous )
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He's Skinnerean, let me guess his age. For a contemporary antidote, a little bit of Martin Seligman, who discovered "learned helplessness"
Starting around 1965, the favored explanations began to change radically. A person’s environment was considered less and less important in causing his behavior.

Just as with Freudianism, behaviorism’s main idea was counterintuitive (that is, it ran against common sense). The behaviorists insisted that all of a person’s behavior was determined only by his lifelong history of rewards and punishments. Actions that had been rewarded (a smile, for example, that had brought a caress) were likely to be repeated, and actions that had been punished were likely to be suppressed. And that was it.


20 posted on 10/21/2023 8:47:38 AM PDT by aspasia
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