Old, still open philosophical debate: is whether free will exists. Materially thinking, everything must have prior reason so free will m...
Old, still open philosophical debate: is whether free will exists. Materially thinking, everything must have prior reason so free will must not exist. But we feel, we can do what we want to do. I can raise my hand, I can stand up, I can go wherever I want to go. Feeling these acts, I can think I have these without any reason. I must have free will because I have acted without prior reason. But this view would lead us to dualism, to something which exists above matter. Do we really need this risky explanation to understand the phenomenon of free will?
If we want an explanation but dualism, we must state, everything which our acts come from is our material brain. Our behavior is determined by our state of the brain. But where is free will then?
What if our free will are not the acts without prior reason but acts with unseen reason?
When we are talking about free will, we are talking about consciously choosing between different choices. If the free will would not be considered conscious, we could not talk about its freedom. The unconscious choice is not a free choice, or at least we wouldn't feel the free will in it. And what is consciousness according to my definition: living our present in our past.
Our brain, all of its state is determined by our current AND all of our past experiences. When we want something, when our will working, when we consider things consciously, we see only our current states, but our consciousness can see and consider all of our prior experiences too. We can't see all of our acts' causes, so we think we have free will. But that is only an illusion. Everything is determined by the present state and prior experiences but the system so complex and working such a way, we can't see the determinism, the causes in it. Our behavior so complex, we see it undetermined, we see it is free. This way we fool our will, that it is free. What I have is my will, based partially on my prior experiences, what I can't recognize as a part of my reason for my choice.
My will is still my will based on my - if prior but still my - decisions. I do not have to be a robot. I can feel I am free.
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