Bugs kinda are like small natural robots. If you watch them enough, you realize most of them function off a set program for survival and only deviate from it when receiving new input/stimulation (some stuff like small amounts of wind, scents, chemicals, etc aren't easily detected by humans, but still affect this). And I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure bug joints don't move with fibers and tension, but with hydraulic pressure.
Having our own wills is just an illusion. All is chemistry, pre-ordained from the start of time by the motion of molecules. The Great Clockmaker has wound the machine, and will watch it spin out for a few billion years and then stop. Perhaps, to modify its mechanisms and wind it once more.
Absolutely, I think humans are deterministic, but there's a tiny modicum of some volitional choice in certain contexts.
If you are unaccustomed to gunshots and you suddenly hear one, odds are you will flee — this is a high-stakes scenario wherein your behaviour is somewhat deterministic.
When in low-stakes, such as interacting with a friend, the functionally infinite, contextual variables that you are subconsciously processing allow for a range of behaviours where you have volitional control; what you say, or do with them, for example. Is your decision in this context always pre-determined, or is this when our higher order thinking allows for more nuanced, "free will" control?
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u/ecarbon24 4h ago
Am I the only one that thinks this looks extremely fake & mechanical?