Such that your future is already pre-determined?
A friend brought up this question the other day and I have brainstormed through ideas.
Since time has this very clever way of working through a relationship with the past, present, and future; I decided a good start to approach this would be to try and define this relationship. The best relationship I came up with is that the future is bridged to the present and then things in the present are again bridged to the past. It's pretty obvious but the relationship between these concepts are Future ----> Present ----> Past.
Working from this:
Future ----> Present ----> Past
I decided to think about why I am posting this blog now, it is because I just got into the discussion with a friend. Why did I get into the discussion with my friend, because she asked the question if I thought things were fixed in time. Why did she ask that question, probably because some arbitrary event A led her to asking that question.
Then I formulated a hypothesis, everything we do in the present is some way formulated (or a better term, is influenced) by something of the past. Since we already have some kind of mapping how the future eventually falls into the present, this hypothesis can then raise an extension to everything in the future is influenced by something in the past (where present will eventually be kicked into the past).
In other words, let event_A be the action you are doing now; there exist an event_A-1 that has lead to event_A. The same induction follows through such that there exists an event_A-2 that leads to event_A-1 ... All the way back to there exists an event_1 that leads to event_A-(A-2) or Event_2. In summary, every event has been lead from event_1.
What is event 1?
While event_1 can have some speculation, it is not important although some may argue it is the creation of the universe or the very beginning of time. It is not important because whether it was defined or not would still show significance how everything is derived from one point and creates a linearity line of progression through the events of time and a subset, your life. My friend proceeded to ask the question or random occurrences (such that what if you did something random, how can that bridge off an event) or what if someone can utilize this linear pattern and alter events.
I will begin with the second question, what if someone realizes this linear pattern and tries to alter events.
The only argument I could formulate is an arbitrary event B would lead up to the fact you are trying to realize the pattern. Since arbitrary event B falls in the linearity of these events, an event to try to change the pattern will only continue to have a linear pattern (such that it could have been pre-determined to make that choice to try and alter the pattern thus not really going against it).
Now the true question, randomality.
The next argument was that if I asked you to pick a or b, you have choice to pick one at random, you can either pick a or b or even mix it up and pick both or none. However, once again, this falls in chain with the events, what is the reason why you are picking a or b, what is the reason why I asked you to pick a or b and ... The true question is it so random? If you were to 'randomly' draw a number out of the hat, the number you pick may seem random, but everything is based on position in a way so it is not random at all. Someone with enough brain power can throw a bunch of numbers in a hat and pick the numbers in a linear order on purpose when it may seem random. The only speculation that can be seen is that random is just an illusion. The reason why someone would pick a or b is not at all random, and there may be some unconscious reasoning behind why a or b.
Another supporting argument to back that up is if you could ask the first human being to pick a or b, what response would you get? Based on they can't communicate, you would expect maybe a different response then a or b. Which shows that there can exist an event C that leads to someone to pick either a or b.
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Conclusion:
Bridging off of the illusion of randomality (some people who do program would know random numbers aren't as random as you would think), I drew to the conclusion that free-will is an illusion. The reason is because we have many different options we can use to do at any second (which throws up this illusion) but with the hypothesis that everything is influenced by a past event, the options we have chosen in the present is because of some influence of the past either consciously or subconsciously and that things are fixed overall.
I know many people do not want to hear this and from this may induce into comments such as "You're wrong {insert invalid argument}"
What does everyone else think?
A friend brought up this question the other day and I have brainstormed through ideas.
Since time has this very clever way of working through a relationship with the past, present, and future; I decided a good start to approach this would be to try and define this relationship. The best relationship I came up with is that the future is bridged to the present and then things in the present are again bridged to the past. It's pretty obvious but the relationship between these concepts are Future ----> Present ----> Past.
Working from this:
Future ----> Present ----> Past
I decided to think about why I am posting this blog now, it is because I just got into the discussion with a friend. Why did I get into the discussion with my friend, because she asked the question if I thought things were fixed in time. Why did she ask that question, probably because some arbitrary event A led her to asking that question.
Then I formulated a hypothesis, everything we do in the present is some way formulated (or a better term, is influenced) by something of the past. Since we already have some kind of mapping how the future eventually falls into the present, this hypothesis can then raise an extension to everything in the future is influenced by something in the past (where present will eventually be kicked into the past).
In other words, let event_A be the action you are doing now; there exist an event_A-1 that has lead to event_A. The same induction follows through such that there exists an event_A-2 that leads to event_A-1 ... All the way back to there exists an event_1 that leads to event_A-(A-2) or Event_2. In summary, every event has been lead from event_1.
What is event 1?
While event_1 can have some speculation, it is not important although some may argue it is the creation of the universe or the very beginning of time. It is not important because whether it was defined or not would still show significance how everything is derived from one point and creates a linearity line of progression through the events of time and a subset, your life. My friend proceeded to ask the question or random occurrences (such that what if you did something random, how can that bridge off an event) or what if someone can utilize this linear pattern and alter events.
I will begin with the second question, what if someone realizes this linear pattern and tries to alter events.
The only argument I could formulate is an arbitrary event B would lead up to the fact you are trying to realize the pattern. Since arbitrary event B falls in the linearity of these events, an event to try to change the pattern will only continue to have a linear pattern (such that it could have been pre-determined to make that choice to try and alter the pattern thus not really going against it).
Now the true question, randomality.
The next argument was that if I asked you to pick a or b, you have choice to pick one at random, you can either pick a or b or even mix it up and pick both or none. However, once again, this falls in chain with the events, what is the reason why you are picking a or b, what is the reason why I asked you to pick a or b and ... The true question is it so random? If you were to 'randomly' draw a number out of the hat, the number you pick may seem random, but everything is based on position in a way so it is not random at all. Someone with enough brain power can throw a bunch of numbers in a hat and pick the numbers in a linear order on purpose when it may seem random. The only speculation that can be seen is that random is just an illusion. The reason why someone would pick a or b is not at all random, and there may be some unconscious reasoning behind why a or b.
Another supporting argument to back that up is if you could ask the first human being to pick a or b, what response would you get? Based on they can't communicate, you would expect maybe a different response then a or b. Which shows that there can exist an event C that leads to someone to pick either a or b.
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Conclusion:
Bridging off of the illusion of randomality (some people who do program would know random numbers aren't as random as you would think), I drew to the conclusion that free-will is an illusion. The reason is because we have many different options we can use to do at any second (which throws up this illusion) but with the hypothesis that everything is influenced by a past event, the options we have chosen in the present is because of some influence of the past either consciously or subconsciously and that things are fixed overall.
I know many people do not want to hear this and from this may induce into comments such as "You're wrong {insert invalid argument}"
What does everyone else think?
