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LessieHoeger wrote: ↑Thu Mar 13, 2025 8:31 am Are humans truly free in their choices, or are all actions predetermined by biological, environmental, and social factors?

Human beings are absolutely, or truly, free to choose.

All actions are predetermined.

Behaviors, however, are different.

Human beings are also limited by what they can choose from.

free choice is not always the wise or reasoned choice

-Imp

LessieHoeger wrote: ↑Thu Mar 13, 2025 8:31 am Are humans truly free in their choices, or are all actions predetermined by biological, environmental, and social factors?

Many misunderstand the meaning of "free" in this context. Human choices are subject to INFLUENCE by various factors, some of which you mention, but such influence doesn't preclude the Freedom to make choices that (occasionally) go against this influence (thus proving the presence of Freedom).

LessieHoeger wrote: ↑Thu Mar 13, 2025 8:31 am Are humans truly free in their choices, or are all actions predetermined by biological, environmental, and social factors?

First of all, you have to define the word "human" In order to do that, one has to have learnt grammar and its relationship to the definition of human.
Now, if a mind has a well defined biologically determined job to perform, and a well defined physically determined means of doing that job. When is man free to do his own work?
Or are you using the word free, as if it means whatever you, particularly choose it to mean? Most people claim that if one has a job to do, they are not free, as if life is the life of a parasite. . .

What is it then, by definition, makes a person free? A correct education in the use of words, or a jug of whine and indiscriminate companion?