Does this horse have free will?
Is free will a conditioned response – like if you see a McDonald’s commercial and suddenly crave a Big Mac? Or your daughter sees a toy and wants one. Is that the exercise of free will?
Is it a response to stimuli, like if someone says something to you or writes to you or slaps you on the face and you respond – was that response free will?
If you say ‘yes’ that’s kind of like saying, if I jump off a cliff I have the free will to hit the ground.
Is free will the choice to move away from a fire, or the choice to go to the toilet or to choose to eat when hungry or the choice to get out of bed when you are rested or not? Do these choices of action come under the heading of free will?
If you need to go to school or work and you would like to go naked but you choose to wear clothes – was that an act of free will? Or an act of self-preservation.
If you would really like to strangle someone or push them out of the airlock because they are so annoying – but you don’t. Is that an act of free will or self-preservation.
Where does natural reaction to stumli or acts that preserve your life and status end and free will begin?
What is free will?
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