There is a way the future is going to happen, and there is a 100% chance that it will happen that way. |
|
There is a way the future is going to happen, and there is a 100% chance that it will happen that way. |
|
How do you know you are not dreaming right now?
The problem of free will comes down to the definition of free will. If free will means actions which are not predetermined by the rules of reality, then no. But if free will means the ability to make a choice, then yes. Even though the choice is predetermined it is still the decision you made based on what you wanted. There are some grey areas like people who set themselves up for failure even though they don't want to fail, but that is perhaps an exception. |
|
Last edited by Sandform; 03-11-2009 at 12:50 AM.
If you are paying attention to what is going on around you, you can think clearly and make your decisions based on what is. If you are spacing out, thinking about what you are going to do later, you base your desicions on your thoughts and conceptions more so than on your perception of what is. The action is still rooted in what is, but it is not fully there. |
|
157 is a prime number. The next prime is 163 and the previous prime is 151, which with 157 form a sexy prime triplet. Taking the arithmetic mean of those primes yields 157, thus it is a balanced prime.
Women and rhythm section first - Jaco Pastorious
I believe in Free will but some make the mistake of understanding the true fundamental nature of free-will in which they believe it to be constructive like a video game. If you think about it, every second, every minute, every hour, everyday, etc… we are given an infinite menu of choices, with each choice made it results in an entirely new game to play. However this is not the point of free-will and that’s where people get confused on the concept of free-will because this only explains the choice that free will is presented with. Free will and the nature of Free will is the how and why of conscious decision making, rather than the outcome of it. How can quantum mechanics begin to explain what sort of microscopic physics could make a valid objective explanation without also removing it’s very course of action in reality? So with that in mind what do we really know about consciousness and it’s place in the universe? |
|
Well, I guess we could say that the past and future are just ideas, with no real relevance, just illusions. The past is a record of present moments and the future is an idea about the presents that will be. With our "brain-power" we can run scenarios giving us the impression, and in some cases a very good impression, of what will happen. As good as my assumption that I'll die if I jump out of the window is, it's still not something I should regard as an actual future and the same goes for the choice I make, which isn't changing the future. Even though this thinking doesn't disprove free will, or at least make its existence harder, this is just a tip of the iceberg-ish argument. The thing that I rely on when deciding on free will is what science tells us... in short what I've said before or what SpecialInterests said a post up. |
|
How likely is it that we, humanity, keep mulling this question because one answer or the other is correct? |
|
If you have a sense of caring for others, you will manifest a kind of inner strength in spite of your own difficulties and problems. With this strength, your own problems will seem less significant and bothersome to you. By going beyond your own problems and taking care of others, you gain inner strength, self-confidence, courage, and a greater sense of calm.Dalai Lama
I like this mode of thinking, it makes a lot of sense. I myself believe in Free will also and it's mostly in part to what you've mentioned here. The how's and why's of decision making on a conscious level plays an enormous role when dealing with free will in the everyday world. I definitely agree that if the outcome of free will (after-events decision making) is the focal point, then it is indicative toward prior an ongoing events which would make entirely deterministic. I think there is definitely an irreducible first person perspective that Science cannot and will never answer. Because you can't bypass the simple fact that you will never know what someone else truly feels. |
|
We have free will. The question is, how much do we use it? If you don't question anything and go with the flow, your use of free will is minimal. If you do however, then you use your mind and will to actually determine what you're going to do. If you do the same like in the first case, it's still different. |
|
adopted by Walms
LDs (good ones): 8 (3)
WILDs: 1 (1); DILDs: 4 (0); DEILDs: 3 (2)
Dream goals: find the dream car (two-story dolly-beetle) []; use dream car to switch surroundings []; meet []; dance with []; meet personifications of different parts of my personality []; buy the damn jersey! []
member of the Official Dreamviews Fit Club
Apparently it's a very good theory. It's just that at the effects lessen with size, so we don't see random things happening in the macro world. It's all very complicated and I have a laymen (un)understanding of quantum mechanics. But he, in a way, already answered your question...Even if random things happen, how does that change the 100% outcome that always happens? Is that not determined? |
|
Quantum mechanics and relativistic space-time do complicate matters, but there are simpler principles that call the universality of Newton's laws into question. Foremost is uncertainty of measurement: absolute precision of measurement--any measurement--is unattainable even in theory, because that precision recedes to infinity. At the very least, this uncertainty makes the initial conditions required for Newtonian predictions unknowable. |
|
If you have a sense of caring for others, you will manifest a kind of inner strength in spite of your own difficulties and problems. With this strength, your own problems will seem less significant and bothersome to you. By going beyond your own problems and taking care of others, you gain inner strength, self-confidence, courage, and a greater sense of calm.Dalai Lama
Bookmarks