DBT
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Nah, you are still equating non chosen random input into decision making on a micro scale as a choice....something which quite clearly is not chosen. You are just saying something that appeals to you * free will* - whoo Hoo - but has no apparent relationship to the means of production of conscious will.
Here's a scenario to explain how my argument can be reasonable.
Imagine scientists ask a subject questions that the subject has to make decisions about; they are subjective type questions regarding morals, preferences, beliefs, etc. Meanwhile, every part of the brain that is responsible for the subject's decisions are being recorded. Then after the decision had been made, they ask if the subject felt like he made the decision; he assures them that they were his conscious decisions. Then, upon reviewing the information, the scientists see that a part of the decision-making process that is always active when people make decisions had random behavior during the questioning.
So, the subject's decisions could have been different, and they were as free as far as the QM of the decision making goes.
This seems very much possible given certain assumptions/conditions.
Doesn't work, sorry to be so blunt. Feeling like you made the decision when the decision was made prior to conscious report/experience is not a freely willed decision.
Regardless of how it feels consciously, you do not choose the modification that a random quantum fluctuation inflicted upon the normal function of information processing that led to the decision that was made and experienced in conscious form.
Even if the World was under the sway of hard determinism, you would not know it through your experience of interacting with the objects and events of the world. Not having conscious access to the underlying process, you would believe that your decisions are freely made.. obviously, an action follows a given decision.
So either way, you have no conscious access to the underlying means of production, your conscious experience of the world, and feel that your thoughts and actions are freely chosen. They are certainly not consciously chosen under your proposition. Your thought processes are being acted upon by elements which you have absolutely no regulative control.
It's a dead end, ryan. Be happy with rational will.