filtherton

Okay, i realize that this might be a little out of nowhere, but i have a deformable body mechanics final tomorrow and i'm trying really hard to procrastinate.

So here it is, a question for the atheists on the board:

Do you believe that you have free will? I mean, it's one of those things that everyone just kind of assumes because it's really depressing not to, but it strikes me as something that lacks a certain amount of evidentiary basis, especially in light of the tricky ways the human mind works in the context of biochemistry and reaction times.

Now, the reason i'm asking the atheists is that as far as i can tell the atheists here are atheists because they a rigorous skeptics - they don't believe in things that can't be proven. To me, this kind of strictness in perspective seems really limiting in light of the complete lack of understanding science currently has about the nature of consciousness.

I'm really going to try and not turn this into a discussion about theological belief (or lack thereof). I'm just curious, because i don't really think that there is sufficient evidence of the existence of free will.