“If you break through this sense of having free will”…. Without free will whether you don’t or do breakthrough is not your choice. His statement is self refuting.

I believe your true free will is at the spiritual level. In the mind you can unconsciously accept or reject information but consciously you can override your reflexive reaction or go with it, both however will align to your spiritual state.

You are free will. That’s what you are. If everything is determined, it is determined by a series of causation, however you are not a series of causation, you are a distinct entity that is not a causal chain.

Current physics says indivisible stuff like our subatomic structure is not fundamental and divisible stuff like our atomic structure is fundamental. Current physics is laughably incoherent.

Free Will is a misnomer. What does it mean to be free? What is the will? By my definition, “free will” means that you have the freedom to do whatever you will. So no human being has free will, only God can have free will. And furthermore we are imprisoned by the circumstances of our lives from cradle to grave.

"Free" will... I can choose to think about it -or I can choose not to. Seems like a choice I made on my own. But in the grand scheme of things? Like.. sometimes you're "meant" to be somewhere at some time.. aka "destiny".. that's the only argument about "free will" I'm open to entertaining

My current opinion is that free will is a muscle that grows thru awareness, capability, and desire. Action is what the muscle does.

I've noticed that when dualities are disputed, they are both true but we think only one can be true. This is 3-d thinking. But if we and reality is multidimensional, thinking only one can be true is fallacious.

Your mind is the map, your heart the compass. You need both to find your way. But even if the arrow is pointing you straight into the darkest swamp, you must traverse it, regardless of the dangers lurking therein.

This only works if you assume consciousness is an emergant property of a materialistic universe. If we consider that consciousness is nonlocal, as recent studies show, then free will now can reside in non-local consciousness as the controller for a non-free will materialistic body.

Interesting. I’m curious as to how these time presents come back from the future. Like what kind of technology would verify his assertions. Freedom of choice wants freedom from choice according the sage DEVO.

my will to be free cannot be broken...

The most obvious thing to me is that people have varying degrees of free will

You think you're a unique butterfly, as distinct as any fingerprint, but in reality, Arnie has more options avaliable to him, in The Terminator when he chooses "Fuq you, a**hole" 2:49 - Is Retro causation the description of what we see in the double slit experiment? If it is, I'd not attribute this to the absence of free will, as again, this would include the collapsing wave function. The measurement is what give the result the appearance it has, now. Maybe that's a stupid connection, I don't know if Retro Causation describes that effect.

When I have several things to do I visually map out my route and then that "activates" everything to fall in place for me. If I'm traveling I visualize a red carpet in front of me. Where Free Will gets a kink is when you think you can inject your will over another. You can strong arm them...or you can pick a weak person but that energy eventually implodes.

Markov chains in this 3 dimensional universe means no freewill unless consciousness exists outside the brain

Genius. Put up a chart and insert yourself into a quarter of it. Why even put it up ?

You're accepting a paradigm that doesn't really stand up to scrutiny. It took me a while to realize that while I didn't seem to know what was going on in my unconscious, my unconscious knew everything that was going on in my conscious mind, so the perceived separation only goes one way, so maybe the distinction isn't real at all. I only have one mind. There is only one person inside of me, and it is that person who controls all of my voluntary muscles. The only logical conclusion is that I am the one generating all purposeful behaviors, and when free of external coercion, it is perfectly reasonable to call this free will.

Free will issue has long been settled.

There was a funny quote I'm trying to remember but can't find. Something like, "God gave you free will so you have the freedom not to believe in free will." I can't remember and it's driving me nuts lol

Retro causation can’t be true. Why would we put our selves through the hard lessons of life? Why would we make our self want things we can’t have?

What sort of nonsense crap are these two on about? 😭😭😂

Babble

sniff sniff annoying

Is this some sort of CIA operative we’re supposed to trust

Let's go Brandon, I agree!

If you have no free will than how you can take something for certain???😅 high lvl logic in top scientific world 😅 if you have no free will your theories are worth nothing