FREE WILL FAILS TO SAVE YOU FROM BEING CONSIDERED A BIOLOGICAL COMPUTER

People say you cannot love others if you think they are machines without free will. Determinism is the doctrine that we only imagine we have real control over what we choose and there is no real choice.  Determinism uses choice to mean not that if you could go back in time you could choose to do other than what you did but to mean that you simply had a programmed reaction to something that you wanted to have.

Free will says choice is real.

 So critics say determinism is calling us machines.  But who says you need free will to not be a machine?  What if we have the faculty but only imagine we use it for our bodies trap it and make us think we really make choices when we actually do not? 

Who says that if we are machines we are machines in the same way as the radio? Even if you deny that people are machines, in practice you treat their bodies as them and bodies are certainly machines. The brain is a machine. Damage it and it may not work any more.  The machine approach is the dominant one.

If the fear of being machines is what drives the popularity of the free will doctrine, we cannot argue, "Maybe when so many believe in it their experience has told them it is true".