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How Would You Define a Choice? And the Difference Between a Choice and the Experience/Sense of Making a Choice

In: Deconstructing Behavior, Choice, and Well-being

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  • Edward R. Morey

    (University of Colorado)

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A choice is difficult to define, particularly if you feel compelled to not use the word “choice” in the definition. Consider the necessary and sufficient conditions for a behavior to be chosen. For example, does choice require a choosing experience? [Chapter 11 investigates the neurological evidence on whether the choosing experience affects what you do.] Contrary to what economics assert, Neoclassical Choice Theory makes choice impossible in the street sense of the word—that you could have behaved differently. Most neuroscientists and physicists reject choice and free will: they believe the world is casually deterministic (or quantum indeterminate) and believe either is incompatible with any entity having free will. Many philosophers are deterministic compatibilists. Most other humans believe determinism explains the behavior of animals and toasters but not humans, and humans choose. Why only humans? If choice is defined so humans and economici choose, other species and toasters also choose.

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  • Edward R. Morey, 2023. "How Would You Define a Choice? And the Difference Between a Choice and the Experience/Sense of Making a Choice," Springer Books, in: Deconstructing Behavior, Choice, and Well-being, chapter 0, pages 319-336, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-36712-0_10
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-36712-0_10
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