AQA: 7062B Christianity
Every day we wake up. At first there is nothing, and then we become aware of the world. From that moment we seem to be constantly making decisions about what to do. What to wear? What to eat? What to do with the day? The experience of making choices implies that there is a self with a memory of the past, awareness of the present and creative imagination about the anticipated future. Choice implies the motivation, or will, to do one thing rather than another. Choice needs a home and we find it in the mind. But what is this mind? We can slice and dice the body and brain all we like but where is the mind by which we know things? Without the mind the very idea of choice seems problematic and without that how can we exercise our free will? If there is no such thing as the mind or free will then what becomes of knowledge?
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