Neurological Disease: Dignity, Free Will, and a Reason For Hope | Paul LaPenna, DO
The Thomistic Institute
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Is There a Difference Between Decision Making and Free Will?
In whether we have free will, exercising free will requires reasoning and livit instructs his patients not to think, but rather to passively respond to an urge. There is no evidence whatever that this is the brain unconsciously deciding. Can a neural tissue make a decision? Ah, you know, they are certainly associated and necessary for decision making. Butis another thing to say that the neural tissue makes a decision. Neural tissue doesn't decide anything. They have no inherent intentionality. And humans, human beings, they liberate they act, they act their brains. So this is as committing what's called the mereological fallacy. It aims to identify brain processes and chemical substratum for certain human capacities
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