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Who Cares about Free Will?
If you’re talking about free will, you may be having the wrong conversation.
Human ego and drunk poets have ruined the powerful concept of soul and turned it into a flowery notion.
Your character (body-mind) can function on its own. Soul doesn’t do anything. It just witnesses what the character does. The character would go on as per its script even if your soul weren’t here to witness it.”
― Shunya
I get bored when people talk about free will.
Arguing about the existence of free will seemed like a way to pass the time at dinner. Or a concept that’s thrown into a thriller movie to spice up an otherwise boring scene.
Most people misunderstood the concept. They’d say “What is the point of trying if there is no free will?” as if salmon didn’t struggle and experience pain and die every year as they swam upstream, compelled by instincts they couldn’t override.
Some people say free will is an illusion. We don’t actually have any real choices because we are products of things outside our control. Physics, biology, environment, genetics. Like the salmon, we’re compelled to swim upstream.
But what practical application does this have for life? If I feel the illusion that I can decide, then to me it’s the same as actually deciding…
