Re: Mind's Eye Re: Matter

What I would do is limited to my nature and as Lee and I are made up
differently his choice would be different , but that would be in line
with the choice towards which he is genetically predisposed or
environmentally learned. What I mean is that will is a consequence of
thought processes which end up in making a choice.

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 3:22 PM, AmandaRheen <Machiavelliblue@gmail.com> wrote:
> What I understand you to be saying is merely that free will is limited to
> the number of possible choices that are available to the organism within the
> total capacities of the material matter of the organism. The part where you
> stop making sense to me is
>
> " If you think that is freedom , then you are really the
> master of yourself. " in context of the example you used with Lee.
>
> That is "where I would have
>
> beaten up a child mercilessly you would not have because you are not
> free , if you think you are go ahead and shoot up your enemy , but of
> course you would not because your reason would stop you where mine
> would not."
>
> What does 'if you think that is freedom, the you are really the master of
> yourself' mean?
>
>
>
> On Thursday, July 12, 2012 10:53:49 PM UTC+10, RP Singh wrote:
>>
>> The will to change yourself comes from within you , but those who are
>> ignorant of the intricacies of nature think that they have brought
>> about this change. When you breathe you think that you are freely
>> doing so but the fact is that it is your body which is demanding it.
>> Whether you are controlling your anger or not is in your hands but
>> your decisions arise from the working of your brain which is matter
>> and as such governed by neurological or biological principles. If
>> freedom was real the whole machinery of the universe would have
>> collapsed and there would have been mayhem everywhere , but that is
>> not the case and wherever you look you find harmony within. Whatever a
>> man does it is his nature expressing itself , where I would have
>> beaten up a child mercilessly you would not have because you are not
>> free , if you think you are go ahead and shoot up your enemy , but of
>> course you would not because your reason would stop you where mine
>> would not. If you think that is freedom , then you are really the
>> master of yourself.
>>
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