Why Choice is Not an Illusion | Raymond Tallis
Philosophy For Our Times
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The Differential Nature of Action
John Stuart mill said we can escape from any particular law of nature if we are able to withdraw ourselves from the circumstances in which it acts. The multiplicity of laws that we have teased out from what is going on at a particular place enables us to be both law abiding or law governed at the same time, not to be helpless substances upon which laws operate. It arises out of a fundamental characteristic of human consciousness, intentionality. That we have intentions and that we can requisition parts of nature to realize them is the missing ingredient of free will. Despite that in one sense we are material objects in a material world, there is another sense in which we are outside of nature.
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