Determinism Vs Free Will Analysis

When we hear the word “will”, first thing which arises in our mind is my choice. In our society, humans are involved by freedom but all the laws and rules have limited are freedom to a level. Tough not much freedom in many things but we do have freewill. Many philosophers have claimed that we should do what we actually want to do, which means that we should obey our freewill. In contrast, Sam Harris objected about the real concept of freewill. Harris is a neuroscientist and he believes that there is no such thing as freedom. According to him our brain acts upon our sub-conscious activities and human are just a puppet to their brain. As much as it sounds disturbing, it is a fact to some degree. In the book “free will” he explained that our …show more content…
In many cases freewill is very vital part of our society, without freewill it would be hard to hold anyone in charge of their activities. Few philosophers argued in contradiction of freewill with the concept of determinism. Determinism considers that there is a cause behind all “event” and the “event” is referred as our movements. So basically, every event happens can neither be stopped nor can be caused randomly. Determinism is an opposed of freewill, in which every action is prearranged by past. The problem with this policy is that no one could be blame for their action whether it’s good or bad-since everything is prearranged. Determinism falls into two further categories: hard determinism and soft determinism. It also means that freewill is predetermine too. Unlike determinism freewill is a very important factor for taking concern, which can create a dilemma in society to punish or praise anyone for his or her actions. Sam Harris also proved this with his mri test which showed that our action is a result of our subconscious and every human’s acts in a different way due to their personal life understandings. We can’t think like offenders because we have never lived their life because no one becomes criminal in just one …show more content…
I do agree because freewill is define as a freedom of making any decision but our choices are narrow because of the laws and rules of society. Any decision we make is reflection of past. It’s hard to say that our choice exclusively comes from our mind. We are programmed to think in a certain way. For instance, humans cannot control their feelings over many things. I have seen many people trying to drop weight but they end up eating unhealthy food, which gives me a pure idea that our mind is not under our control. I still think that we are responsible for our every action, which means we can control our desire for certain things but that, would not be our choice then. Many of us think that we have a control above our body but can we stop developing? The answer is no. In reality we don’t even have control over our body or mind. The only thing we can do is selecting to take correct action by bearing in mind the penalties. Though one can debate that we are not force to make any decisions but this is not true. Every day of lives we are force to make decisions on daily basis. Such as, going to school, eating, sleeping and many more. We don’t even have a right to deprive our body for