Is our existence signified through freewill? Would anyone feel that one exists if one has no freewill at all?

Answer 1

Good question!

I do believe that our existence is signified by our free will. Free will is a corollary of consciousness. As a conscience being, to exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating one self's endlessly. Consciousness is seemingly proportionate to the living being's power of choice. It lights up the zone of potentialities that surrounds the act. It fills the interval between what is done and what might be done.

Definitely no one could feel that he exists without free will. We have the freedom of the will. We prove this by feeling it directly in the crisis of moral choice. We feel this freedom as the very essence of our inner selves, of the pure ego. We feel within ourselves the spontaneous activity of a mind moulding experience and choosing goals.

Thanks for asking. Have a great day!

Answer 2

Free will is an absurd concept that rests on the notion that our decision making process is somehow exempt from causality.

Believing in freewill is hardly required to feel like one exists. The fact that it's theoretically possible to know what someone will decide given a complete knowledge of their environment and heredity, doesn't change the fact a decision has been made.

Existence is the interaction of energy & space-time. The fact we are slightly harder to predict than the other energy edies, in no way changes the laws of cause and effect. The totality of the decision process may be impossible to see, but again, that does not make if 'free'.

Answer 3

Freewill is an illusion for a number of reasons. Man can do what he wants but he does not will what he wills.

Our existence isn't signified through freewill but through consciousness. If you notice man simply reacts and doesn't act. True freedom is in knowing thy self, becoming a self sustaining harmonious universe unto yourself.

Answer 4

Freewill is the most important aspect of living and not merely existing. Many creatures exist on the earth but they are in bondage of their intuitions or instincts. Man can also exist without realising the importance of his life; but for living, one must exercise his will. It is not that he is not bound to any rules, social or otherwise, but he does that of his own volition. In this regard, it would be apt to quote Desccartes here : 'I think, therefore I am'.

Answer 5

Free will is a religious idea and the dualist counter to fatalism or predestination. Dualism only exists in the interpretation of the incoming stimulus by your imagined individual identity called 'you'.
As an organic machine you have no way of controlling your will other than in an attempt to suppress naturally occurring responses to stimuli. This suppression is in itself violence against the body and only temporarily impacts the ultimate response.
"Will" is attached to 'self' which is itself an imagined entity making 'will' an imagined power.

Answer 6

sometimes i wonder, do i have free will?
it feels that one is just an organism that acts a certain way to reap the rewards or avoid punishment.oh yeah, than the question of sacrifice occurs.

why would a self serving spiritless organism sacrifice one's life or wealth etc for others?
subconsciously that sacrificing individual may desire greater delayed rewards and psychologists can argue the biological link of altruism such as dying for ur brother who has ur genes or nation which has same pheno and similar genotypes.

one person quoted Descartes "i think therefore i am".
he /she is confusing validating existence with free will.

Answer 7

Some argue that our free will is illusory.

I believe it is theoretically possible to have will that is not free, but feels as if it is.

E.g. If people who know us well can predict generally our actions, we might assume our actions are determined by the current set aspects of our personalities.

We might then imagine a situation where will was not free but we still have conscious existence.

Similarly we might imagine consciousness without awareness of boundaries of self.

Answer 8

everyone has freewill to do whatever we want, there just could be consequences for some of the things you do

Answer 9

you'd not be able to ask that question and get answers like you have now if we're not endowed with free will?

The only difference is you choose the best answer and somebody above you judge you whether you made the right choice.

Answer 10

Everyone has free will, if not, no one would question wether or not we do.