Saturday, 7 October 2006

The answer to free will

Free will... does it actually exist?

I have the answers, but no proof. Hence, I shall use debate to provide the proof I need.

I think that whether you have free will or not depends on how you look at something.
If you look at a person, and JUST 1 person, you will see that they clearly have the ability to make choices freely.
On the other hand, if you look at them as a whole, all that free will somewhat cancels each other out, and you are left with no "choice".

Think of the motion of atoms - they are incredibly, extremely chaotic systems. However, when all the atoms - some 6 billion of them, bond together into a liquid or gas. By then, larger, inter-nuclear bonds take over and they become more steady and hence - less free will.

I don't expect anyone to get what I say - we all have different brains.

6 comments:

Samuel Poon said...

All the time, we are subjected to free will (i.e. we can do whatever we want). But then, there are consequences for every action. It is the consequences that acts like a deterent or an encouragement.

You see, (you'll agree), rules don't govern people, they only govern punishment.

People, like electricity, like to take the path of least resistance.

Eugene said...

ok...

but I'm talking about free will philospohically, not socially.

However, I think we aren't subjected to free will IF you look at us like atoms - we are predictable creatures with chaotic brains. It's all too hard to compute, though.

Like brownian motion.

Eugene said...

your free will can be limited, without you consiously knowing.

don't get psychological, too. Go AI.

Eugene said...

we can be random, we can be extremely chaotic and unpredictable in many ways, we may even feel that we are free, but we aren't free.

Samuel Poon said...

Do you mean that you can't possibly think of everything, or that we are incapable of doing everything?

Eugene said...

I don't get your question.

What does that have to do with free will?