If I'm not mistaken, you're a psychology major. Now what is psychology if not the scientific study of behavior and mentation, and how can there be a science of uncaused behavior and mentation? And if you say that the cause of human behavior and mentation, including human will, is the individual person, I say that it is unscientific to assume that the proverbial buck stops with the conscious choices of the individual without taking into account the biopsychosocial factors, many of them undoubtedly unconscious, that cause those conscious choices. In other words, it seems to me that modern psychology implies determinism. Thus, if you really believe in free will, it seems to me that you should render serious consideration to changing your major.
Critical Philosophy, or Empty and Vain Opinions about the Emptiness and
Vanity of Opinions
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Here's the key: the brain has no access to the world outside. Sealed within
the dark, silent chamber of your skull, your brain has never directly
experie...
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