Comments by "Craxin01" (@Craxin01) on "Humans do not have free will | Robert Sapolsky" video.

Perhaps science will totally figure out how our brains work. I realize I have no real reason to believe in total free will, but I can't help but believe in some sort of limited free will. I do understand that there is some combination of basic programming in the human brain and some level of environmental conditioning, I just think there is something more than science has or maybe even can figure out.
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@peterhorton9063 If everything is 100% totally deterministic, we'd have learned to control things a lot more than we have. There'd be no surprises. Human consciousness may have its roots in biology, but there is something within it that totally confounds scientific interrogation. While WE might not be surprised by our actions, people that believe they have us figured out are very often surprised by our actions. How often have we heard someone going off the deep end and people who knew them their whole lives saying, "I never saw this coming"? I liken free will to a greenhouse. There is only so much space, water, sunlight available, limiting the plants you can grow. You might not be able to grow a tree, but once you see the limitations, there are still a nearly infinite set of possibilities within those limitations. A small infinity is still infinity.
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