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Originally posted by CSflim
So if you see legless angel bunnies floating around, they too are also "real"? Just because we believe that we have "free will" doesn't not make it real.
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That's a perception question. What are you considering "real"?
Also, as long as I'm here, CSflim: I was not attempting to throw the quantum theory out as a be-all and end-all of the debate over free will, merely suggesting an option that I had not thought about for a while. Additionally, I was the first to reply, so I didn't have a feel for the forum, yet (I R teh n00b, of course.)
Tertiarily (sp?) What I was suggesting was that the human brain has been designed as a system in which a magnification of the randomness of these particles could provide a basis action that does not (or cannot) be completely predictable.
This means little to me, personally: I'm of the opinion that science is just as full of doubt as any religion: I simply thought that it was a valid answer to the question of free will; or, I wanted to provide a possibility grounded in science before people started breaking out their bibles and their Nietzsche.
edit: I was a jerk, and spelled "Nietzsche" wrong.