- What does free will mean to you?
- Do we have free will or are we puppets of determinism?
- Do we determine our will, or is it simply part of a causal chain?
- Do you believe you have free will? Why? Why not?
- What conditions or circumstances would need to be present in order for you to have complete free will?
- What are the necessary conditions for an action to be regarded as a free choice?
- If free will is defined as “the ability to have, of one’s own accord, done otherwise”, does anyone have such free will?
- Does having free will presuppose consciousness, can philosophical zombies have it?
- If all events in the universe always have a cause, does your decisions stem to causes that are eventually outside of “you” (e.g. before you were born)?
- How can the independence of human volition be reconciled with the fact that we are integral parts of a universe which is subject to the rigid order of nature’s laws?
- Just consider the next thought that pops up in your mind. Where did it come from? Did you freely choose to think it, and only then did you think it? If you cannot control your next thought and you don’t know what it’s going to be until it arises, where is your freedom of will?
- How can a stream of thoughts and perceptions have free will?
- You can do what you will but can you will what you will? In other words, you can choose to act on your desires, but can you choose your desires? Where do desires come from?
- Given that there are differences between the brains of sociopaths and normal individuals, can you really say that you would’ve made different choices had you been born as Jack the Ripper?
- How do we know that animas don’t have free will? If they do what does that change anything?
- How can we be free as conscious agents if everything we consciously intend was caused by events in our brain that we did not intend and did not consciously control?
- What ethical/moral issues would arise because of a universal belief and trust in genetic determinism?
- Are freedom of action and freedom of will the same thing? How do they relate to each other?
- Does punishment from god contradict the idea of free will?
- Does the notion of an all-powerful God conflict with the idea of free will?
- If God is all-knowing and knows the future, can we be free to choose?
- To what extent does conscious awareness of our desires, motives and options available to us make us more free?
- How can you bring greater awareness to the choices you make?
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