This definition has a problem and that is the claim that humans 'act freely' without outside influences. The evidence indicates that the possible ability to ' act freely' is very limited at best.
Influence =/= determination.
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This definition has a problem and that is the claim that humans 'act freely' without outside influences. The evidence indicates that the possible ability to ' act freely' is very limited at best.
Influence =/= determination.
Is free will basically the idea of an open mind, or free spirit?
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The roll of determinism in nature and human nature is based on the objective verifiable evidence, as well as evidence against libertarian Free Will. The current knowledge of humanity does not conclusively determine that human nature of choices is mechanistically deterministic, but it demonstrates that determinism dominates.
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The roll of determinism in nature and human nature is based on the objective verifiable evidence, as well as evidence against libertarian Free Will. The current knowledge of humanity does not conclusively determine that human nature of choices is mechanistically deterministic, but it demonstrates that determinism dominates.
The concept of free will in my opinion is larger than your OP and the replies I have seen so far. Free will supposes that the universe is not pre-determined.
There is a basic premise, which is that free will cannot coexist with an omniscient being. If something out there (let’s call it “God”) knows what you’re going to do or think next, or even what your great-grand-child will think or do next one century from now, then everything that we think we are doing is simply predetermined fate. If it can be read ahead of time, then you were not actually making any spontaneous decisions that were not predictable.
Conversely, if you have an idea pop into your head, and some “God” says, “Wow! I didn’t know he was going to think that!”, then that entity is NOT an all knowing entity, and while it may be a god-like being, it is definitively NOT The God.
Additionally, while obliterating the possibility of a universal God, free will would also eliminate the possibility of a purely physical universe. If the motion of every atom and electron and quark is already set up throughout the universe, and all particles are subject to laws of physics, then where they go and how they interact (including with the sodium and potassium channels in the neurons of your brain) are all knowable (even though we currently couldn’t begin to fathom how). What you choose to eat for lunch today could have been influence by how a photon bounced off a hydrogen atom in the vicinity of venus yesterday.
True free will suggests (demands) the presence of some sort of undefinable “spirit” outside of your body/brain which is able to influence your brain, and yet is not influenced by physical matter and energy within this universe.
Free Will is the idea of autonomy from God, gods, the universe, and especially Fate.Is free will basically the idea of an open mind, or free spirit?
Only the manifested state is reality.why would that be an issue? all knowing and all being?
schrodinger has already shown that both states of a dead/live cat are possible. only when the idea is tested does it appear. so then all states are possible but not all states are being manifested until choice is made
Could you give an example of this?
Free Will is the idea of autonomy from God, gods, the universe, and especially Fate.
all forms are temporal. reality is ever changingOnly the manifested state is reality.
all forms are temporal. reality is ever changing
all created things are potential energy and all energy is potential created things.reality is that the temporal things transform into something else. so reality is no less kinetic than it is potential.True in a way regardless of what we personally believe, but incomplete, and needs more explanation,
Considering that determinism has not been shown to be the unequivocal operative behind events, asserting that "determinism dominates" implies their are instances where it is not at work or where it is only partially at work. What instances do you have in mind?The current knowledge of humanity does not conclusively determine that human nature of choices is mechanistically deterministic, but it demonstrates that determinism dominates.
Isn't that free will?self-determination can go against god, or gods.
Nevertheless.all forms are temporal. reality is ever changing
Is free will basically the idea of an open mind, or free spirit?
So will couldn't mean what a person doesn't want?Will means what person wants.