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This is just a test post, but for filler I've inserted some of my musings.
On the matter of free will Vs predestination
The reason this problem was brought up is that if we assume the world works in a mechanical way, they key precept to most of science, then predestination is forced on us. It's what I call "Mechanical Predestination," but I have no right to claim that I invented the theory. I simply deduced it seperate of outside input. If anyone reading this knows the real name for that please let me konw.
In this scenario we have no choice because we work along set rules, so that the result is always a direct consequence of the trigger. This means that the original trigger (the key problem with this principle) caused a reaction, which triggered another mechanically determined reaction, and so on throughout all of eternity.
Ok, all well and good. However, I perceive choice. I may be under an illusion, or more correctly a delusion, but I still think that I'm making a choice even if the mechanical nature of my own psychology determines what I'll eventually decide. I still percieve myself as having free will.
Lets just roll with that for a minute, we cand debate it later, because now I'm going to Blow Your Mind.
Everything I've ever seen I've seen through my eyes. Everything I've ever heard I've heard with my ears, etc. etc. This means that the whole of reality as experienced by me has been my own perceptions. In essence Reality is what I perceive it to be.
Now. If reality is perception, and I perceive choice, then choice is reality even if my perceptions illusionary.
If you have a counterargument please post it.
-Max Willson
On the matter of free will Vs predestination
The reason this problem was brought up is that if we assume the world works in a mechanical way, they key precept to most of science, then predestination is forced on us. It's what I call "Mechanical Predestination," but I have no right to claim that I invented the theory. I simply deduced it seperate of outside input. If anyone reading this knows the real name for that please let me konw.
In this scenario we have no choice because we work along set rules, so that the result is always a direct consequence of the trigger. This means that the original trigger (the key problem with this principle) caused a reaction, which triggered another mechanically determined reaction, and so on throughout all of eternity.
Ok, all well and good. However, I perceive choice. I may be under an illusion, or more correctly a delusion, but I still think that I'm making a choice even if the mechanical nature of my own psychology determines what I'll eventually decide. I still percieve myself as having free will.
Lets just roll with that for a minute, we cand debate it later, because now I'm going to Blow Your Mind.
Everything I've ever seen I've seen through my eyes. Everything I've ever heard I've heard with my ears, etc. etc. This means that the whole of reality as experienced by me has been my own perceptions. In essence Reality is what I perceive it to be.
Now. If reality is perception, and I perceive choice, then choice is reality even if my perceptions illusionary.
If you have a counterargument please post it.
-Max Willson
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