Do We Have Free Will

Do we truly have free will? It is the ability to make a decision without hindrance. Human nature, neuroscience, everyday life are contributing factors in free will.
Human nature deals decisions that focus on the awareness of the conscious mind. For instance, free will enables humans to control and carry out their own decisions. Contrary to Freud’s belief, free will is dependent upon personal “motives, convictions, and intentions.” To specify, external forces do not completely establish human behavior (Hanaan, Radhakrishna 355). Given the ability of free will, human nature cannot cloud the conscious mind. Common actions to humans can be rewritten through retraining the brain. Brian Garvey, from Lancaster University, mentioned from Free Will
A teacher by the name, Jane Elliot, told her class that the blue-eyed students were to be treated at a higher standard than the brown-eyed students. In this exercise the students were no longer able to interact amongst varied eye colors. A blue-eyed student went out of his way to say, “Well, what do you expect from him, Mrs. Elliott," a brown-eyed student said as a blue-eyed student got an arithmetic problem wrong. "He's a bluey"(Eagleman 2015). On the next day the roles were reversed. Every brown-eyed student was moved towards the front of the classroom. The difference was the brown-eyed kids felt emotional deprivation and were filled with empathy toward the blue-eyed students and treated them as equals. Jane Elliot’s main take home point was equality and to respect others despite their outward appearance. Human nature of the blue-eyed students was to discriminate, after the experiment their thought process was changed. This experiment showed human nature does not control free will. The blue-eyed students were then able to consciously choose to treat the brown-eyed students equally after the experiment. Factors associated with human nature such as free will are able to be consciously decided
Austin Naber is the world’s fastest cup stacker in the age ten brackets. The reason he was able to stack at the world’s fastest rate was because cup stacking entered his unconscious mind. Dr. Josè Luis Contreras-Vidal connected an electrode cap on Austin. This machine was connected to an Electronic Encephalogram or EEG. The EEG measured brainwaves and measured the amount of energy it took to preform the task(Eagleman pg 76). Components who were newly joined cup stacking still recognized it consciously in their brain. In the mind of new cup stackers their brain recognized the movements as ‘new.’ New events take the brain longer to process because they have to mentally concentrate on the activity. Austin, however, lucked out cup stacking entered his brain as an old’ unconscious activity. He was able to stack without his brain deeply concentrating on his actions. David Engelmann quoted, “Our conscious minds are really just a summary of what our brains get up to all the time” (Eagleman pg 84). Through thousands of reps Austin was able to turn cup stacking into an unconscious