Friday, February 24, 2012

Free Will vs Determination


What seems like a more likely explanation for why we make decisions: Each and everyone one of us independently thinking about what to do, or a master puppeteer holding over 7 billion puppets?  From my viewpoint, it seems much simpler and more logical that decision making is decentralized (on the whole) left up to each person.  I just find it hard to believe that someone is controlling the thoughts and actions of every single person.  But doesn’t also apply to animals as well?  It seems to me that whoever or whatever is pulling the strings, that it has a lot on its hands to take care of.

1 comment:

  1. Determinism is not the idea that there is a puppeteer. The universe is not governed by any figure, it's just natural process.

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