will

The term will comes from the Latin word arbitrīum. The concept refers to the Will wave autonomy of a person when acting. For example: "Don't wait for my instructions: act according to your will", "The officer made the decisions on his own and according to his will", "In this organization there is free will, but each one must take charge of the consequences of their actions".

The idea of ​​agency is usually included in the notion of free will, frequently used in the field of religion and the philosophy. Free will implies that the human being has the can in order to decide and act on your own, without being tied to a divinity or destiny.

This assumes that people They do not act from a conditioning, but they do it according to their will. In this way, a subject who decides an action is responsible for the effects of the same.

The question of free will has been analyzed throughout the story. If people are free to act autonomously and are therefore responsible for their actions, it is possible to argue that individuals should be punished or rewarded for the moral quality of the actions. For this, people must not only have freedom: they also have to have the ability to choose between different options. In the event that there was only one path, there would be no free will possible.

Modern social organization is based, in a broad sense, on the belief in free will. That is why those who commit crimes are punished: the subject is made responsible for the consequences of their Actions.

In the fields of psychiatry and neurology, the concept of free will has a great importance, since there are certain disorders in which the patient seems to go against his own Will, as if a problem with his brain prevented him from making use of that freedom that supposedly characterizes us.

A clear case of conflict between free will and a disorder of the mind occurs in the obsessive compulsive disorder, whose main feature is that the patient is overwhelmed by the need to carry out certain actions that, although they are against their own will, interprets them in the opposite way. For example, a person who feels compelled to wash their hands many times a day may come to believe that they are following their own wishes, even if the opposite is true.

On the other hand is the Tourette syndrome, which begins in early childhood and is characterized by the presence of various vocal (phonic) and physical (motor) tics, which usually vary in intensity and even disappear seasonally. Some tics they can be chronic and others, transitory; moreover, it is possible to suppress some of them for a time.

In most cases, the severity of tics decreases when patients reach adolescence, and therefore this syndrome it is usually not properly diagnosed. Another factor that influences the fact that it goes unnoticed by science is that it does not usually manifest itself violently, that is, many cases are relatively mild and are not decisive in the social insertion of the person.

The alien hand syndrome, alien or strange causes the patient to make movements with their upper limbs impossible to control and contrary to their own will. As can be seen, the free Agency is not something we can all take for granted, as some diseases prevent us from making use of it.