Free Will
Does wanting something make it real?
There is an xkcd about this. And it actually happened, presumably simply because this one person wanted it. He used his thoughts. and then it happened. What causes this? If humans are the neurons of the collective consciousness, you could say that the neuron that is xkcd, aka Randall Munroe, has very much influence amongst the rest of the human-neurons. Because of this, his will becomes their will, accomplishing much but with a simple message.
Free will. It seems that free will and control are intertwined in a continuum. Let's get one things straight though. You have no control over anything that is happening right now. You are merely an observer in your own life, but why you ask. Cause and effect. This very moment was in the making as soon the big bang exploded our existance into reality, and arguably before that. You do not have control over your decisions, for they have already been made for you.
"I can choose to stop reading this right now, if I CHOOSE to do so!" you shout at me. To which I say, "Nay." You would choose to stop reading this in an attempt to prove me wrong, if you were the type to prove me wrong. And therein lies where you do not have control. You were predisposed to stop reading to spite me. You think you made the choice, when in fact this choice has been made your entire life. What you perceive as choice is merely your own understanding of the events that influence your actions.
Furthermore, you had no control over the fact that you are reading this right now. External forces compelled you, in some way, to arrive at this very moment in time, exactly as you are now, reading this very word.
What forces you ask? All of them. Everything that exists is influencing you right now. Look around you. What is influencing you, other than my words? Your influences are everything you can perceive. The sound of the computer fan under your desk, the lighting in the room. Though internal, your emotions influence how you perceive primary inputs, thus also considered an input.
These inputs are lost in the maze of your mind, only to emerge as your actions, which, over time, directly influence you as well. Much like a computer, the inputs directly correlate to the outputs.
There is only one thing that exists. A system. Within this system, there exists smaller systems, and so on and so forth. As a system, it shall recieve input and produce output.
The human body is one such system. You are one such system. Unless you control the whole of reality, you do not have free will. Which brings me to my point.
Free will and control reside on a continuum of the level of influence your thoughts have on your environment. Though you do not have control of the amount of influence you have over reality, for it was predetermined, you do still indeed influence all that around you. Whether or not your desires coincide with your external reality is what you define as "control", or rather, how much influence your thoughts have on your environment.
One constant in reality is change. Reality may coincide with your desires for a time, but eventually, that reality will change as the universe will show you who is really in control.
12.07.2009. 01:23
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