If we didn't have free will, what would the purpose of consciousness be?
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If there were no free will to make choices, wouldn't the human organism, like every other living thing simply act out behaviors to insure its survival, sustenance, and procreation?
We do all those things already, yet we can decide through free will what we choose to eat, who will be our friends, what our job will be, what we believe in, what our interests are, how we will act in each situation, and we have the will and power to transform our mind above the lesser motives of life.
Without choice we would in my opinion be centered around a primal maybe even instinctual state of existence.
You are right, consciousness has no purpose except to carry out the actions that the electrical impulses in our brain are telling us to do. Our head is a sack of chemicals created by genetics. How can chemicals have free will? I really don't think they can.
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