So even when we think we're making choices but could it be that choice you made is already written for you to make? Or do you believe life is a just a one big mess with no directions?
2007-02-04 09:45:07 · 10 answers · asked by Believe me 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
There are patterns and Pythagorean order in the chaos flows, which can be navigated through like piloting a boat through flotsam in water. Free will, or, the apparent ability to navigate through the flotsam, requires a very high, or complex, order of the arrangement of energy that composes our individual consciousnesses. In other words, energy forms basal environments and it is possible to rise about those basal patterns, to experience free will. But, there seems to be a few more "levels" of how energy arranges itself in which what we would consider to be free will is merely, once again, back at being a predictable flow in yet a more complex basal frequency.
2007-02-04 10:03:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
About 100 years ago the scientific answer would have been that everything is predetermined. If you followed strict scientific reasoning you would have believed that the state of all particles in the world one minute from now would be completely predetermined by the state of these particles now.
Luckily, Eisenberg discovered a very interesting law of nature, now called the Eisenberg Uncertainty Principle. According to it, it is impossible to determine the precise state of all particles, including their position, speed and energy level.
You do not need to understand much physics to understand that this principle makes free-will a scientific possibility. Now, for a world to include such bizarre laws and not to have humans with free will would be inconceivable. Therefore "I believe" we have free will.
2007-02-04 13:22:46 · answer #2 · answered by adar 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Everything is determined, but it is determined by our past interactions in the world. Each action we take moves us down a path; so the fact that I am answering this question right now is determined by all my previous interactions in the world. Given those interactions, there is nothing else I could be doing but what I'm doing right now. Where the whole, everything is determined notion breaks down for me is when we try to project things into the future. What happens to me in the future is determined by the interactions I have had in the past, but there are still endless possibilities. So I don't believe, for example, that it is already determined when and where I will die. But when I reach that point, there will be no other way it could have happened.
2007-02-04 11:16:36 · answer #3 · answered by c'mon, cliffy 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Na, sorry. I just can't buy into that concept.
I've always believed that I was the captain of my own ship.....but even good captains run into a storm or a reef now and then. S__t happens to the best of them.
But no; I've always charted my own course in life and been happy with the results.
2007-02-04 10:47:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We pick a direction and usually get where we wanted to go. However, one thing you can count on in life is that it changes. Your day may be set, then the phone rings and things ger rearranged for the day or not.
2007-02-04 11:18:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think life is sorta like a map.
You choose where you are heading.
Then, you choose which places you want to stop at along the way.
And then, you set out directions.
(On how to stop at all of these places and get to your final destination.)
And sometimes, we can't make it to all of those places along the way.
Maybe there's not enough time, or it doesn't interest you anymore...
And then, we have to make choices on where to go next and how to get there.
But eventually, we do end up getting ourselves to our destination.
But how we do it, that's up to you.
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2007-02-04 09:53:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nothing here is accidental. Everything happens for a reason.
2007-02-04 09:58:57 · answer #7 · answered by Golden 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We are the same as any other animal. Life isb't planned out somewhere. It's all "accident"
2007-02-04 10:03:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I think we really do make our own way. It is just that some make really bad choices. If only we had twenty-twenty hindsight.
2007-02-04 09:49:52 · answer #9 · answered by papricka w 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Huh? Well.... you go girl!
2007-02-04 10:06:27 · answer #10 · answered by Alison 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋