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Are sentient being masters of their own fate or is everything we do already predetermine? I have thought of this in the past and it has brought me to dark places. But the truth is that currently, we or at least I don't know enough to say for certain. From a religious standpoint if God is omnipotent then we have no choice but because God isn't real or died at Auschwitz it doesn't matter. Some of the smartest men and women such as Albert Einstein or Steven Hawking have questioned the nature of free will and at times have rejected the idea entirely. Although the majority of interpretations of quantum mechanics that there is uncertainty some theories explain how even this is predetermined. In all likelihood, there is quantum fluctuation but how does this affect us and our ability to choose if it is random then how is that give us any more of a choice than if everything was predetermined? If all choices exist that diminishes the power of choice to nothing because what you didn't choose still happened. I would say that predeterminism gives our choices meaning that they were chosen based on all previous information. So I somewhat hope that the universe is predetermined. What do you think?
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>>9145546
Personally I think the universe is unknowably predetermined. So there is a fundamental predictability to all things, but the amount of computing power necessary to accurately predict how a complex system (on the scale of life) will react just isn't feasible
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>>9145546
>Are sentient being masters of their own fate or is everything we do already predetermine?
I like to believe so and not think about this too much.
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>>9145551
but if it is unpredictable would choice matter or would it be random and meaningless?
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>>9145553
ignorance is bliss but a drink too sweet for I.
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>>9145555
Choice doesn't actually exist in the paradigm I'm putting forward. Only the illusion of choice in that no one can ever predict the series of logical steps which led you as a biological system to act in a certain way.
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>>9145546
The idea of free will is kind of flawed. You just get into a recursive pattern of "This influences this other thing to not follow the laws of physics"
Free will implies you somehow break free of all predictable patterns. For instance instead of being affected by gravity magically not being affected would be an exampe of free will.
Free will only exists if no laws or predictability really exists. In the human case it would mean our brains are free to break the laws of physics etc. Where this choice originates is something you'd have to imagine.
Basically all evidence points to no free will but it's sort of like is there a God? It's unknown if we will ever really be able to determine such a thing.
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