elf_monster

His credentials are that he's an English major that took an introductory physics course. Graduated top of his class at Dunning-Kruger University.

A more logical viewpoint would be that your brain is synthesizing sensory input from not only your bodily senses, but also from your neurons (i.e. memory), and using its predictive cognition to determine the optimal course of action given defined parameters. Your argument for free will is nonsense unless you ignore how the brain works, and why it works how it does (that is, because the mutations that led to these traits were evolutionarily advantageous).

You still aren't "choosing" anything. That viewpoint requires a belief in mysticism, because there has to be something outside the physical, observable system that is controlling your thoughts. Otherwise, you're just renaming cause and effect to intentionally confuse people.

I notice the pictures in the posts you linked are all from areas that receive a lot of sunlight & that don't get quite as cold as the northeastern US. Have you seen these systems producing sufficient heat to keep people who live in colder climates warm?

That's not a concession, that's an unfalsifiable claim that you're not offering any evidence for.

Your attitude here is also completely asinine—"I choose to believe in it"? You realize that's circular, right? "I choose to believe in the ability to choose"? It's incoherent.

And your AMA is an example of American anti-intellectualism. We can all make claims about people, it's called an ad hominem argument and it's a sign of your ideas having no integrity.