How is it that I know how important an event is yet I cannot bring myself to do it even though I really want to.

Provided that the concept of freedom be seen as an illusion.... a facade, wherein then is it that we as creatures have gained the capacity to envision such impossibility? I do think it is amusing... I should add... the contradiction of the concept itself. The more it is strived for, the less it is achieved/realized in a literal sense. What a wonderful chide!

If, through free will, we take only those actions that we choose to take (barring physical enforcement or life/death situations), then where does the concept of 'external influence' fit in, and are we not then ultimately accountable for all the decisions we make in life, even self-destructive ones (the battered wife, the addict, the gangbanger teenager, etc.)?

The notion of "free will" implies an agent can make its own choice independent of the deterministic laws of nature. However, within a causally closed system this is impossible. Why then would evolution endow agents with the feeling of control? Would it not be more efficient (and more expected) for evolution to produce automata without subjective (and superfluous) mental phenomena?

a. Is there a way to prove free will? b. Why can't I choose not to choose? Since everything we do is a choice. Thank you, Jerome

Since we all have a free will and since every sane human being prefers happiness over misery; how come we don´t choose to be good/kind/loving to each other all the time? J.T. Kumberg

Hello. Why is it so that when it's night and my mom tells me to go to bed, I never want to. I want to stay up and not sleep. But then in the morning when my mom tells me to get out of bed, I never want to. Then I just want to remain in bed. Please, why is this so?

Am I a direct result of all the events that preceded me?

Do you believe that freedom is just being able to do what one wants without constraint? If so, why and how?

Is it true today what I will do tomorrow?