thread: 2007-02-26 : Exorcism followthrough
On 2007-03-03, Matt Kimball wrote:
Charles asks what I mean by free will.
What I mean by free will is that the man in my head, the one from reply #30, the one I believe exists because I percieve it to exist within my own head, the man which also creates the phenomenon of "what-it-is-to-be-like", that man, I believe, causes some of the actions my body performs. The alternative would be that the man simply observes, as if watching a movie.
The man's response to stimula and decided course of action could be entirely physically based, and furthermore could be entirely deterministic. This doesn't invalidate the free will.
What I mean that free will is diminished under the influence of Ketamine is that one still has a strong perception that my subjective sense of self exits, that man in ones head exists, as strong as one would when sober, but he's watching a movie of the experience of one's senses. (Now with Smellovision!) The perception was he lacked the ability to change the outcome. And that seemed noteworthy to me. This whole experience, I believe, is what is sometimes meant by the slang term K-hole. It is unlike sleep, because while asleep the subjective sense of self, the man in my head, goes away.
