Quote Originally Posted by MacG View Post
If I am not mistaken free will is free will to choose. I think some of the choices that non-conscious forces* leave us though impose certain limits to what can be achieved and therefore limit the set of choices before us. Even so the same choice set before two or more individuals may yeild varied choices.

Let me know if I am on track here.
It I understand correctly, the idea of the original quote ("The individual human consciousness is a free agent apart from the non-conscious forces of nature.") is that humans are fundamentally different from "the non-conscious forces of nature," i.e. humans can make conscious choices whereas the "forces of nature" cannot. I don't think the intent was to claim that humans are omnipotent, or to claim that our choices are not constrained in any way by the "forces of nature." I think the idea is simply that humans are unique and are the only en***ies in the physical universe that can make conscious choices.

This idea, it seems to me, is very similar to the Christian/Abrahamic idea that humans are uniquely created "in the image of God." Do you agree?