Gnostic Bishop wrote: ↑July 23rd, 2022, 12:46 am
Within the limits of our free will due to the chaotic nature of reality and not a fully deterministic universe.
In a real sense, nothing is determined that cannot be altered by a sentient creature.
Looking at sub atomic particles changes what they will do in the split screen experiments.
Regards
DL
Definition of free will: A will that is free from all constraints and is not determined by any variables e.g. genes, environments, nutrients and experiences. Omniscience and omnipotence allow one a will that is free from all constraints and a will that is not determined by any variables. I have never met an entity that was all-knowing and all-powerful. So, the existence of such an entity is hypothetical.
Definition of constrained will: A will that is constrained and is determined by variables e.g. genes, environments, nutrients and experiences. Biological organisms have constrained will.
The uncertainty at the quantum level averages out at the macroscopic level. When you toss a coin or roll a die, the coin or the die do not exhibit superposition the way subatomic particles do.
We don't have free will. It's impossible to have free will unless one is all-powerful.
Things I want to do but can't do due to lack of ability:
1. Go back in time and prevent all suffering and death and injustice.
2. Make all living things equally omnibenevolent, omniscient and omnipotent and be the owner of an infinite number of universes each.
3. End all diseases, health problems, deaths, etc.
4. Prevent all natural disasters.
5. Prevent all accidents.
6. Prevent all violence, killings, rapes, kidnappings, tortures, crimes, persecutions, bullying, bigotry, hypocrisy, selfishness, cruelty, etc.
7. Prevent all malevolence and ignorance.
8. Give everyone the ability to teleport everywhere in an infinite number of universes across an infinite number of timelines.
9. Prevent all poverty.
Things I do (or will do) even though I don't want to do them:
1. Breathe
2. Eat
3. Drink
4. Sleep
5. Dream
7. Pee
8. Poo
9. Fart
10. Burp
11. Sneeze
12. Cough
13.Age
14. Get ill
15. Get injured
16. Sweat
17. Cry
18. Suffer
19. Die
I am clearly not a free agent with free will. I am truly a prisoner of causality who does things he does not want to do and can't do what he wants to do. The same applies to you and other prisoners of causality. All sentient biological beings are victims from conception to death. We live inevitable lives and make inevitable choices and die inevitable deaths. All our choices are determined by our genes, environments, nutrients, and experiences. Only an all-knowing and all-powerful being has free will. All else are victims of insufficient knowledge and insufficient power.
Why do subatomic particles change what they do when observed? Does it matter who is doing the observing? If a non-sentient robot did the observing, would they change what they do when a sentient human does the observing?