#Consciousness is a self-organised emergent property of billions of neurons firing in patterns in the brain.

#Language is a self-organised emergent property of thousands of words spoken in communication between language users.

#Economy is a self-organised emergent property of millions of people pursuing their own self-interests without any awareness of the larger system in which they work.

Free will, #volition, and choice are not to be found in atoms, molecules, or individual neurons, but in the collective action of billions of neurons bundled into neural networks of information out of which real choices are made.

-- #MichaelShermer, The Truth About Free Will

#quote #freewill

Living Without Volition
Living without volition is like choosing without freedom.

#life #mindfulness #philosophy #volition

The fundamental particles which form us are in a constant state of flux. We absorb and release atoms all the time. Our apparently cohesive structure is nothing more than a succession of physical, chemical, biological and psychological gambits which result in an arrangement of particles sufficiently consistent as to be able to carry out activities which serve to maintain that arrangement and to replicate similar self-sustaining arrangements.

Is it simply a combination of time and probability which have brought us here? At what level of complexity does volition start to influence fate? How do we begin navigating the winds of chance?

#philosophy #chance #volition #fate

A quotation from Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) Austrian writer
Aphorisms [Aphorismen], No. 60 (1880) [tr. Scrase/Mieder (1994)]

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aphorism #compulsion #desire #duty #justification #moralduty #must #obligation #preference #requirement #selfrighteousness #volition #will #wishing #excuse

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We no more consciously know what we’re going to say or do next than we beat our heart, digest our food or grow our hair.

https://whatisherenow.art.blog/2024/10/29/286/

#agency #consciousness #freeWill #intention #mind #unconscious #volition

#PatrickHaggard - #FreeWill: Key to #Consciousness?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9C7Hw2dRlw

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #PhilosophyOfFreeWill #Will #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #Physics #Determinacy #Indeterminacy #Randomness #Intentionality #Neuroscience #VoluntaryAction #Causality #Brain #Events #Experience #Dualism #Human #Humans #Psychology #Reflex #Memory #Evolution #Volition #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn