The Nature Of Things...Free Will and Time

A young couple fill out a pre-marriage questionnaire form.
When they came to the question, "Are you entering this marriage of your own free will?" there was a long pause.
The girl looked over at the apprehensive young man and said, "Put down yes."

Man was destined to have free will. 😙

When someone tells you things happen for a reason,

punch them in the face and say "this was meant to be."


Back in ancient Greece people didn't see their thoughts as belonging to themselves.
When ancient Greeks had a thought, they believed it was a god or goddess giving an order.
Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love.


Now people hear a commercial for fish flavored sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy.
The gods have changed a bit.


Due to evidence in neurosciences, scientists generally tell philosophers free will is incompatible with reality
...that it's likely incoherent against any background whatsoever.
We think we make choices, but the observations indicate our decision making "thinking" happens
AFTER the brain actually has made the choice.
We basically assemble arguments to back the decision we are unaware has already been made.


It may be time to abandon the term 'free will' to the libertarians and other incompatibilists,
who can pursue their fantasies untroubled by reality & evidences.


I submit that free will or not...the human mind is a vacuum in a sense, you see, it seeks to be filled.
The closest thing we might have to free will is choosing who fills it with ideas;
either we do it ourselves or someone else will.


Albert Einstein may have made one of the greatest observations about this, he said
"Honestly, I cannot understand what people mean when they talk about the freedom of the human will.
I have a feeling, for instance, that I will something or other;
but what relation this has with freedom I cannot understand at all.
I feel that I will to light my pipe and I do it; but how can I connect this up with the idea of freedom?
What is behind the act of willing to light the pipe? Another act of willing?"

Schopenhauer seems to have shared that view -
"Man can do what he will but he cannot will what he wills.”


The human intellect torments itself with the traditional problems of philosophy, religion, ethics, etc.
but in the big picture this diversion is meaningless.

We may believe that we are free to take either the right- or the left-hand fork in the road.

Yet can we set up a single objective criterion to prove that after the turn was made that we might have made the other?


Objectively speaking, this only relates to some personal subjective feelings while making the decision.
Not the decision itself.

Ultimately we must believe in free will, we have no choice!

😜🤪🤔

TIME

People tell me

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result."

Oddly, people say that to me over and over.


Reality; whatever that may actually be, eludes us.

We wake up every morning

altogether hypnotized by an illusion we create of time,

in which the present moment is an infinitesimal hairline between an omnipotent causative past and some transcendent, absorbing. salient future.

We have no present.

Consciousness is confounded with confabulation and some imagined idea of the impending.


We do not conceptualize that there never was, is,

nor will be...any other experience than present experience.


Newton did for time what the Greek geometers did for space,

He idealized it into an exactly measurable dimension.

I submit that we are out of touch with reality.

We confuse the Universe as discussed, described, or measured in some sense with the universe that actually is.

Names, numbers, symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas are useful tools.

Yet the hammer is not the universe, even a collection of all hammers is not the universe.


It is not Hammer time. 😎


Nor is it Greenwich mean time,

nor breakfast time.

Is it closing time?...Can someone do hard time?

Give someone a hard time?

You may take your time.

You can keep good time.

You can kill time.

You can serve time.

Do you HAVE the time?

Don't waste your time!

Up time...down time..overtime.

You can make time, you can mark time.

Good times, bad times...we'll have a hell of a time!

Hot time, small time, tea time... the BIG time.

Sweet time, double time, it's clobberin' time.

Time can be Newtonian, Archimedean or non deterministic & polynomial.

There's nautical time, Planck time, old time, ragtime.

Standard time, special time, ordinary time, prime time.

Time outs, Time Bombs, & Time Shares.

You can BE on time.

Time, and time again

Yes...my friends.

It's about time.

It may be just a time anomaly...

but we're out of time

...for a time.




P.S.

I don't know if you've heard...

but eating clocks is time consuming.

🤪