Religion and Ethics Forum

This is why we have brains, to resolve choice in complex organisms.  There'd be no point in having a brain if something else were fulfilling that role.

Well, scale probably does matter in the overwhelming majority of cases, but let's play Devil's advocate on this, let's assume there's an instance where a brain is deciding between two options, and it's come down to a 'casting vote' by one neuron.  It's almost at the tipping point, and we have one final electron settling from a quantum state into one of two positions which will either mean the neuron's active or it's not.

If that quantum event is random then you've got a tiny, tiny element of a piece of brain activity that isn't deterministic... so it's 'free', but what you've lost is 'will'. You've replaced inevitable consequence of prior events to absolutely independent of anything.  I don't see how that benefits your claims.

Sufficiently large numbers of predominantly deterministic events with a random element - like, say, weather patterns - for sustainable (if sometimes dynamic) patterns of activity, so it's possible.

Both of those are extremely doubtful 'ifs' though.  There is nothing that suggests, outside of Chopra-woo, that human 'will' can control quantum events, and nothing to suggest a god, let alone a will of a god with the capacity to exert that quantum influence without any apparent physical presence or existence at all.

O.

When you try to do something, is it for reasons or (partly or wholly) for no reason?

And before you say it (yet again); when you form a reason in illogical gibberish "the present state of your conscious awareness" is that because of reasons or (partly or wholly) for no reason?

Alaskan bears try to catch salmon as they swim upriver for breeding.

Do you imagine bears must therefore have supernatural powers ?

Really ?