According to the comments to my most prior post, many of you believe in the superstition of free will.
Science has plenty of evidence showing that free will is an illusion. For example, we know that people make decisions before the area of the brain responsible for rational thought even gets activated. In other words, you rationalize after the fact while remembering it as if you had made a conscious choice in advance of the action.
There is zero scientific evidence that free will exists. In fact, I doubt you can even define free will without using other indefinable terms like conscious and choice. You end up in the loop of indefinable terms:
[begin loop] Free will is conscious choice. And…choice is when you consciously use your free will to choose. [end loop]
I can’t tell you how many times people have argued with me that free will exists because “I can choose.” But that just substitutes the word “choose” for “free will.” All it demonstrates is that people perceive free will in themselves, and that is agreed by all.
My question to you is this: How many of you believe in evolution because you accept the scientific consensus, yet also believe you have free will despite the scientific consensus against it? If so, explain your reasons.
According to the theory of cognitive dissonance, those who believe in both evolution and free will experience dissonance and will therefore offer arguments that appear humorously nonsensical to observers. Let’s see if that is true.