Does our mind have absolute or free will?

Question

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Am back after 2-day of internet connection problem. Have a great day!

Answer 1

I am glad that you have freely willed to continue to post your good questions here with us ! Your will to communicate with us was not changed by the time-delayed results of a 2-day web connection problem. Will is desire or volition, and not the results which are conditioned by other human and super-human wills.

The Absolute and perfect will of God is given within each normal human mind over about age six years. God has given us from conception a personality with sacred free-will (Volition). This personality at conception is 100% potential in actualization and progresses ever toward 100% Actuality in manifestation in Destiny. Personality is the Absolute You that never changes. The pure Spirit will of God within you also never changes. Humans thus are able in mind to choose to TRY (DESIRE) to do God's will, or to do your selfish animal-human desires, or a achieve a will blend (usually here). When you will to do God's will; the Spirit of God within duplicates that combined God-Man decision-agreement as the better You as a living SOUL being. At physical death, the mortal, physical body dies and the higher, Divine-Human blended soul you ascends to the next higher heavenly super-physical, but sub-spiritual, sphere on your progressive path of eventual perfect Spirit of God attainment-actualization. Then You will be absolutely free to always choose and to do God's will as your all-perfected will.

Sorry, I had to made some compromises in stating the above very briefly; it is far more complex than that.

That which a True Son of God desires and the Father-Infinite I AM wills (Volition) ... IS

Our Sovereign Creator Son of God Jesus Christ Michael has wisely limited the range of space-time Activation of our free-wills. Otherwise, just one sick human desire could turn off the universe ...and that would not be a Godly Action ! So our Master Jesus here in Spirit in this universe of his making, does not allow that to happen. We should all rejoice that we each may live and progress in a fatherly and friendly universe ! Yes, achieving that supreme realization for most humans here is a very long and difficult process --but well worth the cost.

Here is a silly, but hopefully clear, example of needed limits on the free will Power Activations of humans: A 40 year old man could desire to be a 3 year old female dog, but this WILL WILL not happen ! But that mentally sick man could always walk on all 4 limbs, wear a pink dog collar, bark to communicate, always put 3 candles on "her" birthday cake, and only watch old "Lassie" dog movies. Ha ha.

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Answer 2

If the Universe is deterministic (i.e. if identical causes result in the same effect) it can be proven using just logic that everything Super Hero said is true. However, there is some evidence to suggest that the laws of physics are fundamentally probabilistic in nature. At a quantum level it is possible that some phenomena are actually 'random'. Despite being a physicist, I find it hard to comprehend/accept a mechanism by which identical initial parametres can result in different outcomes. Perhaps, we are not aware of all the parametres involved in these so called 'random' processes.
Our reluctance to accept true randomness could be due to the fact that we have gotten so used to the idea that the Universe is governed by laws at all. I see no logical reason why the Universe should follow any rules.
Whatever the case, even if the Universe is not deterministic, most large scale processes are atleast approximately predictable (a bit like tossing a coin a large number of times gives heads almost exactly half the time). Therefore in-determinism does not necessarily allow the existence of free will either.

Answer 3

As someone above already said, free will is a myth. The illusion of free will arises, as do all superstitions, from the lack of understanding of the subject in matter.

We lack an understanding of how our brain works, we know the utter basics but we lack an understanding of how they transform into the intricacies that make us think and act. The phenomenon of contentiousness is something I, nor anyone else, can not explain due to that lack of understanding. However, just as people discovered lightning doesn't strike because the gods are angry and that the sun doesn't rise because of someone riding a chariot, so will we eventually discover that there is no mysticism behind how our brain works.

The brain is a machine. An intricate machine that we didn't figure out yet, it is nothing more and nothing less. And as any machine there is nothing random about it, there is no will, there is no choice, there is input information and output actions, with identical input informations the output is identical. If it were possible to put the same person in exactly the same situation a hundred times, with the same memory every time and all being equal, he would make the same "choice" every time.

There is nothing random about the world, just equations too complex for the answer to be evident to us.

Answer 4

Well, if you accept causality, there is no free will.

One presumes the sum of nature and nurture creates a decision making machine that would in fact be absolutely predictable were all the variables known.

Ah but there's the rub. There are so many variables, and so much sensitive dependence, the ABSOLUTE nature of will becomes irrelevant. We may know the absolute physics of a roulette wheel, doesn't mean we can win in Vegas.

Free will is a synthetic concept arising from the religious belief that God is omniscience, omnipotent, judgmental & just. God cannot justly judge a creature that is compelled by absolute causauality to behave exactally as designed. So with a metaphysical abracadabra the will is somehow freed from causauality, leaving God free to justly judge.

Answer 5

No since a Fight/Flight response has to be overcome through will power.

I was hit in the face repeatedly by my father all though childhood and into my teens. It took me till my mid twenties to learn to stop flinching from people that made a fast movement too close to my face. It took a few years after i met my partner to stop flinching when he made a close move that a normal stranger would not make (like grab me around the waist by surprise). Now I have a 4-year old that seems to have found a new way of getting my attention ... she waves cloths, blankets, scarves, and other stuff in front of me, it's her fairy/princess dance and she is making a rainbow .... I can only take so much of it before my systems overload and I have to tell her off. I'm 42 now. Life goes on though ... PTSD is an inconvenience I've learnt to live with.

Humans have the free will to choose to excercise our willpower. Willpower is an absolute. Free will is subject to willpower when Fight/Fright is involved ...

Answer 6

We are not the mind absolute; we are only conscious of the mind absolute, we are the conscious mind that we centre is individualistic but limitative. Whereas the mind absolute that connective is eternal, endless, and always wakeful.

The conscious mind that we inherit is from the mind absolute that in the essence of its being seems to be aware of the mind absolute in every respect, the origin, the absolute in power and will. As if we had nothing in our mind as such, we would not be able to ask questions like this. How would we know, for instance, that there is the absolute among countless possibilities at all if we had but all things limited in view?

The concept of the absolute will is for the absolute mind that is innate to every individual being but not the being itself. When viewed somewhat metaphysically our mind is like the seat of a candle with and ever-expanding sphere of light, its creative light ever-creating, ever-widening and ever-encompassing.

If we would be able to see through the mind absolute we would see no shadow but all things illuminated all around, a perfect enlightenment. But we see with borrowed light, for our consciousness that has a will subjective to an absolute will, the will of God.

We see with our limitative abilities and restricted standpoint what we could do at every step of the way of living, we make choices and decide upon things that we identify as good for us. We innately know what is good for us only because we are essentially aware of what absolute will is, what is it that we need to come to again and again every time we are distracted or misled. We are mind endowed with a free will, so that we may choose among paths and make our way to our absolute destination. Amen!

Answer 7

I think the problem of free will is misleading. Personally, I would like to avoid any kind of religious or supernaturally inclined answer (i.e. related to God or to other phenomenal events) and assume a methodological standpoint (i.e. scientific). So in regards to free will, every reaction or thought that an idividual has is directly caused by or at least is influenced by previous events (i.e. memory and experience) so that a person may have the freedom to choose one action over another, but no action is spontaneous. Therefore, reality is a complex network of causal interactions rendering absolute free will impossible. Will exists, but it is not necessarily free.

Answer 8

Our minds have a lot of work to do, so it cannot be absolute in anything. Free will is a choice we all make. Whether to follow the herd, and think what they say. Or to be analytical, and create new ways of thinking. Our minds CAN have free will.

Answer 9

You are joking! Your mind is the result of conditioning. There is no free will in it. Mind is reacting constantly and a slave of the master, one's personality! Mind is that primitive or sophisticated as the master. Mind is a tool and nothing without the master who is using it. 'Will' comes from the 'master' and he for sure is not free. Being identified with his mind he is in a game with himself, satisfied in a certain way, but not 'free' even though this is part of his beliefs.
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Answer 10

Hi! Welcome back!!

Absolute freedom of mind and free will are our ego-boosting myths in my view. Just see, over the last two days, even though you would have wanted and willed so much, yet the connection problem did not let you interact with us here.

There is more to it than just these external hurdles in fulfilling our will. First of all, we have no clue how any wish arises in our mind that we convert into will. In some cases, the wish seems to be instigated by some external influence and in some other cases, even that clue is not available to us. Of course once the wish arises in our mind, we apply our judgment to convert it into a will or otherwise just let it go. But the wish itself is obviously not our own doing.... something or the other prompts us to wish.

Secondly, and at a more philosophical level, I would say that this universe is governed by the inviolable principle of cause and effect. Therefore it goes without saying that our wish is also caused...... even if we assume that we caused it, there must be another cause that made us cause it..... in this complex interlinked and inevitable chain of cause and effect, how can we ever imagine that our will is free or absolute? Until and unless we can ever be able to trace back to an Original cause for this entire universe and our being, all this intermediate concepts of our own self, will, purpose etc. are meaningless, just like swimming in the midst of the endless sea seeing water in all directions without any trace of an anchoring land in view anywhere.... just hanging out in the middle with no beginning nor end.