I believe a person can consciously choose to think that a certain proposition is or isn't true. They can even withhold judgment if they feel no need to make a decision.
It's just that you would have to have a want or desire to accept a new belief. It would have to have some value to you great enough in comparison to the value of the incompatible propositions you would have to give up. Also you are not free to choose the thoughts your subconscious mind gives to your conscious mind. So they only way you can consciously choose is to go out observe the world around you and speak to different people. In this way your making a consciencous choice to learn new things and if you want to adopt new ideas and disinherit old ones.
To me it's sort of like a theory of partial determinism. You don't have complete free will but indirectly you can make some choices. |