Another article I found for about free will come from Psychology today. Psychologist Seth Schwartz talks about weather or not we have free will, one of the first points he states is that “ Our choices feel free, don’t they? (Seth Schwartz). He states facts on what psychologists like Freud and Skinner thought about free will. Freud talked about unconscious conflict as causes of behavior and skinner talked about environmental contingencies, but either way we look it at what they thought on free will, we were not free to decide. The possibility of free will have to come from fields of study such as neuroscience and genetics. According to John Searle approach to free will in 1997, “approaches consciousness from a biological perspective and argues that the brain is no more free than is the lover or the stomach”(John Searle).In the textbook the reference to free will comes from a humanistic perspective. Humanist tended to have the view that humans have free will, the freedom to choose their own destiny and strive for self-actualization, which is the achievement of one’s full potential.
In my opinion of free will, I believe that free will is somewhat of an illusion. I think we have the ability to choose what we want to do in life but we do not …show more content…
She isn’t really religious at all but she believes that our future is planned out for us and that we have the power to make decisions in this world but that somehow some type of sprit already knows what’s going to happen to us. For example when you think to yourself “ I wonder what my job will be or whom you will marry ?” You can make decisions which will affect the outcome of or what that stuff is but god or destiny or whatever already knows what decision you make. So she is saying that yes there is free will but that someone out there already knows what decisions and choices that you are going to
In my opinion of free will, I believe that free will is somewhat of an illusion. I think we have the ability to choose what we want to do in life but we do not …show more content…
She isn’t really religious at all but she believes that our future is planned out for us and that we have the power to make decisions in this world but that somehow some type of sprit already knows what’s going to happen to us. For example when you think to yourself “ I wonder what my job will be or whom you will marry ?” You can make decisions which will affect the outcome of or what that stuff is but god or destiny or whatever already knows what decision you make. So she is saying that yes there is free will but that someone out there already knows what decisions and choices that you are going to