Friday, August 4, 2017

Independent Will, Biology, Education

Relations of dependency and independency are concrete and easily observable in both humans and other organisms, especially in among children and adults.  So, there are grounds for conceiving Independent Will as a fundamentally Biological phenomenon, and the Dependent-Independent dichotomy as rooted in the immaturity-maturity, rather than in any of the Physicist or Theological terms that are typical of the traditional Determinism-Free Will debate.  Furthermore, that dichotomy is not absolutely heterogeneous; rather, the transition from immaturity to maturity can be effected by a process of Education, and, in particular, by the acquisition a skill that can replace a dependency.  Thus, Independent Will calls for an educational process very different from those appropriate to the usual terms of the traditional Determinism vs. Free Will debate, e. g. if Newtonian Determinism is correct, then Education is a process of behaviorist conditioning, and if there is either divine Predestination or a divine source of Free Will, then Education is a process of preparation for an afterworld.

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