If free will does not exist does that mean there is no such thing as a parallel universe(s)?

Question

No free will means everything is predetermined from cause A, in which all things must follow in line to cause B, which is reality is the effect of B.
Meaning there is one outcome for all thigns.

(excuse me)Things*

**** I ment the effect of A

Answer 1

No, there could be parallel universes, none of which contain free will.

future posthuman Arc…: I think you go too far to say that quantum mechanics has ruled out determinism. The most you can say is that actions at the quantum level appear undetermined under our current conceptions of natural laws. It is entirely possible that new laws will be discovered that regulate quantum mechanics. Also, whether there is determinism or indeterminism at the quantum level is neither good nor bad news for free will. It is entirely irrelevant because our conscious choices do not take place at the quantum level. It doesn't matter to our freedom whether the matter that composes us is deterministic or indeterministic, since we do not have any control over that matter. Quantum indeterminism is no more or less compatible with free will than is determinism.

jelesais2000: I'm afraid asking this question doesn't prove anything. Asking it could have been determined (by, say, their social environment which places a lot of importance on free will combined with genes and upbringing which made them a naturally curious person.) The fact that we use the word "if" proves nothing. We say things like "If it doesn't rain next Saturday, I am planning on going to the game." But that hardly means that whether or not it rains is really not determined by natural laws. Using the word "if" only refers to our limited human understanding, not to how things must be.

Bandman: Having free will doesn't just mean an ability to not give in to instinct. Social setting plays a very large part, and if your social context determines what you do, you are no more free than if you had never risen above the level of instinct. A great example would be kamikaze pilots. Now, if there are human instincts at all, there is certainly an instinct for self-preservation. In that time and culture, however, young men, educated in certain styles and beliefs, saw it as their duty to intentionally kill themselves. This kind of social influence is obviously limiting of free will, and at the same is not merely following instincts. A person who goes against their instincts is undoubtedly going against their instincts for a reason. Do they get to choose why they would buck instinct? If so, then why have they made that choice? Did they choose whatever their motive was for that choice? This is an infinite regress, at the end of which you will find some combo of genes and environment determining our actions.

charles t: But can you choose between good and bad? I think your example shows why there cannot be free will. When you are trying to decide what you should do, you are trying to decide on either what the best means are to your ends (in which case you are really only a fancy calculator) or you are trying to decide your ends. If you are trying to decide your ends, your choice will either be arbitrary and random (which our choices are not) or it will be based on some criteria. If it is based on that criteria, you either must have chosen to use that criteria, and what was that choice based on? Nothing? Yet other criteria which you must have chose? Or criteria which you did not choose? If nothing, your actions are random (but we can see that they are not), if criteria you have chosen, you have the infinite regress i mentioned to bandman above, if, finally, criteria you did not choose, then you are not free, but only a calculator.

Answer 2

If a different universe is created each time you make a choice, and you don't have free will, then the universes wouldn't be created, since there really is no choice. But, how can you be sure that there is no free will. Many philosophers say that, but would't there also be those with a strong will, those that refuse to give in to instincts? If they do so, then wouldn't that be a demonstration of free will?

Answer 3

Free will does exist in this particular sector of the universe. The simple fact that you can choose to be "good" or "bad" shows this all to clearly. Whenever you ask yourself, "should I...or shouldn't I...?" and answer the question, is when you exercise your free will. As to the possibility of parallel universes existing or not, I believe that they do. All that's required is the belief in the unlimited possibilities in the expression of one's soul and what one calls "God". Truly thinking outside the box of this reality is what opens you to the possibilities of parallel universes. Of course, the belief in an "Oversoul" and the concepts behind it makes parallel universes a fundamental necessity.

Answer 4

so which you're saying unfastened will is barely attainable by using MAGIC? it is not a controversy in any respect. there replaced into something interesting interior the information final years. i haven't examine plenty approximately it, yet some mathematicians, apparently, claimed that subatomic debris have unfastened will, and that this explains how we've unfastened will. it type of feels shaky to me. What we % out as randomness is basically a loss of information. If we knew the acceptable velocity and perspective of effect on the table, shall we are awaiting cube rolls every time. it incredibly is smug to think of shall we are awaiting the collisions of subatomic debris--of direction they're "unpredictable," via fact we lack the approaches (and information of what variables to hint whether shall we notice them) to make any sturdy predictions. I even have something drawing close a non secular thought that ideas isn't comparable to rely, that ideas isn't effected by using rely, and that organic ideas, for this reason, has unfastened will. i do no longer expand this concept in unfastened will to those psychological activities that are sure by using rely--that are vocalized or related to varieties. In a fashion, this is to declare that unfastened will won't be able to exist without God (metaphorically).

Answer 5

I cannot comprehend how free will & parallel universe/s are in any way relevant, one to the other. It would be foolish of me to attempt an answer to a question, that is to me a matter of apples & oranges? Of course, I wonder why you asked. If, why, you feel there's a connection. Minor details might have helped.

Hot Coco Puff is illogical, in "assumptions" made with no explanation. No parallel universe/s? Fascinating "absolute."

Answer 6

I don't see what one has to do with another. Although quantum mechanics has pretty much ruled out any possibility that we live in a deterministic universe (good news for free will), there's nothing to say that other universes couldn't be governed by different sets of rules.

Answer 7

If you can ask that question, free will exists. Free will does not exist if you have no choices. The word "if" would never have been invented because there would be no choices to speculate about.

Answer 8

Free will does exist, and there is no parallel universe, unless you beging your existential philosophy lesson by dropping acid.

Answer 9

perhaps.