"Free Willy - shout of freedom for the #free #will"
Annie to Jesse: "You know, animals can already be unpredictable. And they can misbehave sometimes, just like people. But that doesn't mean you can lose trust in them." (http://www.filmzitate.info/index-link1.php?link=http://www.filmzitate.info/suche/film-zitate.php?film_id=5237)
It's not just animals that can be unpredictable. Humans are now times (unfortunately) also. And here this ominous term of the "free will" or the "#Willensfreiheit" swims once again by the "whale basin" whether one would like or not. Quite similarly it happened to me this morning, when I decided - completely against my habits - for a cup of tea, instead of a cup of coffee. After all, I am the "master in my house"! And when I feel like tea, my "free will" has heard the "call of freedom" and decided against my habit to let my arm reach for the tea can. Or was it perhaps not my "free will" after all? Had my "neuronal network" in my head already decided 7 seconds before I even "knew" it? Or was it even an expression of my "emancipatory freedom" to "consciously" "resist" the "#determinism of the automated routine"? There they were again my "three problems" for which I had no answers.
In this essay I therefore try to find answers to such questions and go on the one hand into "the philosophical problem of free will", then on the other hand into the "empirical attacks on free will" and finally into the "latest results of cognitive #neuroscience" of self-control. The whole thing is then rounded off with "proposals for overcoming the 'determinism-freedom-of-will dualism'".
More at: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/08/31/ruf-der-freiheit-fuer-den-freien-willen/
