tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7039164266387823682.post431727465077323989..comments2023-11-07T13:07:29.117-06:00Comments on Ideationizing: "you" May Not Have Free Will but "YOU" Dograntsr@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15076081539709128340noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7039164266387823682.post-43212098174601659782013-10-10T12:50:06.790-05:002013-10-10T12:50:06.790-05:00Recently, I have had conversations with people who...Recently, I have had conversations with people who claim that the universe is entirely deterministic. They claim that the only reason for the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is that we do not have the technology or scientific knowledge to calculate the values said Principle states are impossible to predict. I do not have enough math or physics under my belt to state the specific theories; However, I am under the impression that - even if we could measure the exact position AND velocity of a quantum-level particle - there would still be a lot of fundamental randomness within Space-Time at the Planck level to create true randomness. While this randomness may average itself out at the macro level, I believe it can have enough of an effect at the molecular level to influence neuronal activation. <br /><br />This, then, gives me just enough of a window - wishfully imagined or not - to continue believing in free will. Similar to my claims in the above post, even if those random fluctuations are actually part of space-time, they occur within the space of my skull and influence molecules that are part of my neurons. So I claim them as my own. If you want, you can call those fluctuations part of my "experience," like the weather.<br /><br />I know what follows is an entirely fallacious argument, but: How can one be expected to go on, believing that - regardless of one's decisions - those decisions were already predestined at the Big Bang? How can one who is struggling for self improvement continue said struggle believing that, if they just give up, that decision was predestined. Yet if they continue to struggle, that decision was also predestined. That even the conundrum of whether to struggle or not - to be or not to be - was predestined before one was even born. <br /><br />So, despite my abhorrence for fallacy, I have an even greater need to believe in my own free will, however imaginary that may be. Perhaps you could call this my "religion." My one thing that I must believe, on faith alone. For, without free will, I do not believe I could continue to suffer those slings and arrows; nor would I have the strength to take arms against that sea of troubles - whichever said free will may choose.grantsr@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15076081539709128340noreply@blogger.com