Free Will.

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Originally Posted by ZenitYerkes

It might look like something bombastic, but how if we weren't actually free or have free will? How if the only thing we are, is our conscience; the only thing we've got certain is that we exist, but cannot actually control what we do?

I don't entirely understand. Right now I'm choosing to post this. I think that answers your question.
Also I'm choosing to add this smiley →

Originally Posted by ZenitYerkes

Let me explain myself. If we were determined by our environment, by genetics, by previous experiences; wouldn't that have been enough to configure our mindsets to prefer this or that instead of any other thing, what to decide, how to act and express ourselves (if I hadn't read the books I've read, I wouldn't have the vocabulary and forms of expression I've got now).

That doesn't have much to do with free will. Regardless of my preferences, I could still, say, eat a hamburger if I really felt so inclined (though, I prefer chickenburgers.)

Originally Posted by ZenitYerkes

What I mean is, do we actually have free will? Or is the "software" of the brain only controlled by what we have lived, and not our conscience?

Do we control ourselves, or do the circumstances do it for us?

Yes we have free will. I don't know about you, but I control my own brain.

(As far as I know. )

Originally Posted by Human No More

One theory is that for every decision, every chance occurrence, there is a parallel universe where the other occurred, to the point that some might just be slightly different, while some might be entirely different, from one where I am a bit taller, to one where we are all Na'vi, to one where life never evolved.
In that theory, we still have free will, but we end up in the appropriate situation influenced by the decision made, while if we made another choice, there would have been another outcome.

Real or not, parallel universes are an awesome theory. I mean, personally, I think it makes so much sense. But then again, that would really suck for alternate-universe-you if he had to make all the wrong decisions.