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Originally Posted by kellychaos
I hate to seem like I'm sitting on the fence here but I believe that we have only "limited will". The amount of variables are infinite and, subsequently, unconscionable. That is to say, you make THINK that you taken all options into account but the fact that you've been not only socially conditioned but conditioned by nature itself (i.e. five senses whose brain's very thinking process lay victim to a "matrix of thought" which is based only in the space-time continuum). Long story short is that you may FEEL like you have free will but that is due to the lack of a broader vision that is beyond our capability. This narrow field of sentience is good enough for most of us, though.
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Sentience on the other hand requires a choice. An ability to choose whether you wish to do one action or another. An it is improbable that such a choice exists. With the mass quanity of variables affecting each individual person, we must take into account how physics has determined the universe works. Not only in the basic linear form of Cause and effect, but also in the form of Chaos theory. Which dictates that each effect actually has multiple causes, as well as each cause producing multiple effects. Now with this in mind it is logical to believe that each action a human performs is nothing more than an effect from various amoujnts of causes. As such the human didn't choose the action, so much as just perform it. And with the human simple performing this action, they are not truly choosing anything. Nullifying sentience. For without this choice, there can be no sentience.