Interesting.

Always believed humans are incapable of understanding free will due to their inherent flaw of physical and psychological needs perpetually fighting for attention. Ergo, free will is impossible whilst we have these needs.

Without food - you die. Quod erat faciendum.

You cannot define free will whilst your physical needs and psychological needs do not allow you to make decisions outside of those two boxes.

All decisions, therefore, are the result of one of the two needs winning an internal argument your brain has, mostly without your consent. When you take a course of action, or make a decision, on the basis of how you 'feel', this is your brain making decisions for you.

All this is the core of why people debate the issue of free will, and also why a future that has removed these inherent needs is classed as a utopian future, and those with; a dystopian future.

Without needs-fulfilment, there would be no issues and certainly no need to balance an equation which is already balanced, similar to algebraic formulae balancing using notation: if both sides are equal; move on.

I believe I touched on this with specific reference to characters and story telling somewhere a few weeks back - "Do ships have crews?" thread perhaps...anyway, all stories and characters are directly proportional to how decisions are made and the balancing act that humans go through, due to the way the human brain currently is in its current stage of evolution.

The sci-fi film 'The forbidden planet' touches on this btw awesome Wikipedia link although I think it was very presumptuous to believe this part of the brain will still exist after another few million years.

Damn fine movie though.

AK