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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > At what age do humans get free will?
 
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Jeza
Feb 13, 2011

The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.
No useful definition of 'free will' is present 100% from birth. I'd say at the very least, some notion of cause and effect is a prerequisite, and probably self-awareness beyond that. If free will is real, and as many have rightly pointed out the arguments against are probably more convincing, it isn't one of those ye olde clear-cut attained states but some form of continuum that ebbs and flows according to circumstance.

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > At what age do humans get free will?