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caelum19  ·  3354 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Do you believe in free will?

I also think it's possible only I have free will(IIRC it's called Solipsism?). What do you think of other humans/animals and their free will?

    Why don't more people cave to impulse?

I think this is equally for and against free will. People always seem to act the way evolution programmed them, or by a not-always-helpful byproduct of how evolution programmed them(Evolution is such a bad programmer).

Evolutionarily speaking, which is better:

1)To act on impulse, even though you'd suffer in the end

2)No impulsive thoughts at all

3)To consider acting on impulse, and the future implications

With the situation you described, I believe #3 is the path your brain took, and that evolution is to thank. You could keep driving if you chose to do so, but you won't chose to do so.