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Jordan Munroe asked the Naked Scientists:
Many people ask this question, and I think its rather silly. Its a philosophical question, and its a matter of perspective. If you are considering the timeline as a whole, then there is no choice and everything is predetermined. If you are considering the present
moment, however, our minds can make choices.The choices we make are a part of the physical causation of the universe, but it is still we who have chosen. We chose based upon a complex system of analysis and information storage that IS us. That framework IS what we are. So if a given state of this mental framework will always choose a certain way, we, being that framework, are still the one that chooses. We experience the framework as knowledge and feelings and no one would doubt that we use these as criteria to make choices.
What do you think?
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