You just decided to click and read this post. But you could have chosen another post. Please don't get me wrong, I don't want to say that I am good and that's why you read my post now. I am not good. I am just a person like everyone else. Insignificant in the ocean of being. But sometimes with strange thoughts caused by the life.
We live a life, in a world that lets us ask more questions than it gives us answers. These things, if you are open enough, always get you thinking again.
The more unusual events or coincidences you experience and the more you think, you understand how the world works, and the more you wonder if your whole life isn't already predetermined. Would that mean that we have no free will and all is determinded?
There will be some course of events and this course of events exist.
Brain Research show us that brains makes decisions that have an end effect on others decisions and that again and again and again...
So the decision to click on this post, had to come because of the choices you've made and you've met before. But it was still your decision every time. I don't think you can decide what things to do. For example, you may have clicked on this post because you've seen my posts more often in trending. Or because this topic looked interesting for you and you are generally interested in it. Maybe this interest comes from you, because you like to philosophise yourself. Maybe you had a friend with whom you philosophised. Maybe this friend of yours was someone from your neighbourhood. Maybe you got to know him by chance, because you did something with another friend. This friend was perhaps a friend from school. This concatenation is only a very simplified example and it can go on like this.
This cause and effect principle can be traced back to the big bang (if there was one?). This is not an easy topic. These thoughts become interesting when you think about what we're all made of. Everything is made up of tiny particles like the atom, which are constantly moving. If one only knew at a certain time how the location and the speed of these particles is, what the according to quantum mechanics not so easily possible is, then one could theoretically calculate all further states.
This would also apply to thoughts and decisions, if even these were also physical events. Our thoughts and decisions are based on material experiences and are just as important regardless of the physical world. One could call this a spiritual world and is not really subject to the laws of nature. Where is this spiritual world created? Where is it happening? Only in our heads? If yes, then why do spiritual decisions have an effect in the material physical world?
These are extremely exciting questions!
The mathematician Pierre-Simon (Marquis de) Laplace put forward the idea of the omniscient demon. According to Laplace, the future is namely clearly determined by the initial conditions chosen once. So every future condition depends on the previous one, and it all builds up on the first correctly chosen beginning. This means: If you would freeze and copy the whole world with all the atoms and so on, then in both worlds, it wouldn't matter after how many years, you would observe exactly the same processes and happenings.
How incredible is it that the initial conditions were such that atoms and elements could create complex beings like us? And that's not all, we begin starting to question everything.
In the theory of Pierre-Simon Laplace, his demon is a highly intelligent being who lives outside our universe, who knows exactly the laws and physical state of everything in this universe at a certain point in time and can therefore calculate the state of things at a later point in time. So he already knows the whole future. In my opinion, this being should also be outside of our universe, because one should think about the problems that would arise as a result if he would living in ours
For example:
What if he would live in our universe and if he would calculate his own state and then do something that speaks against the predicting?
Provided our thoughts and decisions are physical phenomena, does that really mean that we have no free will? If everything is predetermined and predictable, do we still have another freedom of choice? Are all decisions really real experiences? Or is it only an illusion?
Everybody can do what he wants, even if it is somehow been definite. Why the future doesnt have to be predetermined so that we can speak of a free will? As long as we don't know our oven futures, that we know this thoughts, we wouldnt know that there isnt a free will and we would belive in us. At the moment when we would know it, this action, that we hear about it and know it, would have to be determined beforehand and then one gets into an endless system or into a loop. Is that not paradox?
One thing is sure and that is that each one of us is going to die. Everything else is for us humans only suppositions and speculations. If we had more knowledge and intelligence, then perhaps more predicts would be possible. Maybe with the help of supercomputers? But since they would then be built by human hands, they would not be perfect, because man is not faultless. Would the predictions then still be correct? Would that then redirect the prediction? Or would that then also be predestined again?
The laplacian demon from the example above can, according to the theory, predict everything. One can say that he is an omniscient being or a kind of supercomputer, which can calculate everything and every state and already knows everything that happens in our universe.
Isn't that about the same as when we observe animals and can predict their behavior based on our knowledge of them? Because we are intelligent beings and know about these things? Then you could say that animals have no consciousness and that this is something else, right? But even among humans it is possible to predict their future decision by knowing enough about a human being. But that doesn't mean that this person couldn't decide freely just because you already knew how he will decide.
Or does it?
So perhaps there could also be higher beings than us who pay attention to us.
Those who could explore or even know our behaviours, but which we may not be able to perceive. Just like when we look at tiny animals without being caught by them.
The whole thing would mean that there really are no coincidences and that every movement of every leaf on a branch is predetermined. We humans have limited imagination and are perhaps even arrogant because in the world we know we see ourselves as the most intelligent beings. We just haven't seen a higher existence yet. we are finding out more and more things and are amazed at their existence. How far will this voyage of discovery go? What do we actually want to discover? Our fate? That we are free? That we are something special? Do find a God? The meaning in of all?
If everything is already determined, then we will experience everything sometime in the future anyway, won't we? Do we want that at all? Or is a goal programmed for us?
