Freaked by Free will
When something uncontrollable happens, people always blame fate or destiny for it. There are other occasions when we attribute freewill when we are able to take things into our control irrespective of the situation. It seems contradictory that a person can exercise freewill when the outcome has already been programmed. If such is a case, choice is just an illusion.There is also a tendency to ascribe events to the invisible hand of the supernatural.
I really see God to be a real unimaginative/dull guy if he has already determined our fate and we are just playing our roles to the predestined outcomes of the game. He would have played a fair part in betraying us, giving an illusion of having choices.Onething for sure; he must be one pure genius to have designed various systems with such level of fascination and awe.
It would be unfair to blame the super designer for none of his fault. It would be equally unfair if he helps out a select few who seek his help because he would become unfair for not having helped a person for not seeking his help. In my kind opinion he can give only the ability and it is all up to us to apply it.
I am not here to deny or mock at fate, it would be equally fallible to do that. I see fate to be just the set of imminent outcomes which are the consequence of our past actions. We are facing something because we have construed them by our past thoughts, action and will. This is no path breaking concept; it has been preached by all the philosophies and called karma as well. In short "As we sow so shall we reap".
Isn't there any respite? What if we want to change our course of action? We can really take a course of action but not without the constraints of options generated by the outcomes of our previous actions which I can safely term as fate. We endlessly face a world with options created by our own pasts but possess the freewill to choose our options. To be precise we program our fate and freewill.
Let us suppose that a person is at the point A now, and he has the freewill to move in any direction and suppose that he moves to point D intially.Now he has again the freewill to move in any direction although he has a liking to move to point F, but chooses to move to point E with his freewill for some reason. Now he decides to move to point F with freewill but with a difference, he has the current options are certainly influenced by his past actions.
He could have taken the shorter route at D to F, but now that he has chosen to move to point E, he had to travel some extra distance to reach F.Now we can say that he would still reach F , but he would have spent extra time or extra energy (speed) to reach there.
We have to certainly face the effects of the causes created by us and that does not deny us the freedom to liberate ourselves from the clutches of our past actions by our own will. This is what I mean when I vouch that we create our fate by our own thoughts, will and action.
I have some interesting questions? What determines the ability to see and generate options? What makes us to choose a particular course of action?
It is our perception that gives us the ability to do so. As usual, the age old story, perception is the process of acquiring, interpreting, selecting, and organizing sensory information. Our perception is limited by our field of experience. We define our courses by the limitation of our perception perse.
Till now I just discussed about the freewill and fate of a human in an isolated way. We obviously interact with the system around us and each of the individual components has their own freewill and fate. I can't resist telling the impact of one's freewill on the other.
What about our famous butterfly effect which refers to the idea that a butterfly's wings might create tiny changes in the atmosphere that ultimately causes a tornado to appear (or, for that matter, prevent a tornado from appearing).
I certainly feel that even our system as a whole has is subjected to freewill and fate. What about the possibilities of applying freewill and fate to the creation and creator (nick named god)?
I really see God to be a real unimaginative/dull guy if he has already determined our fate and we are just playing our roles to the predestined outcomes of the game. He would have played a fair part in betraying us, giving an illusion of having choices.Onething for sure; he must be one pure genius to have designed various systems with such level of fascination and awe.
It would be unfair to blame the super designer for none of his fault. It would be equally unfair if he helps out a select few who seek his help because he would become unfair for not having helped a person for not seeking his help. In my kind opinion he can give only the ability and it is all up to us to apply it.
I am not here to deny or mock at fate, it would be equally fallible to do that. I see fate to be just the set of imminent outcomes which are the consequence of our past actions. We are facing something because we have construed them by our past thoughts, action and will. This is no path breaking concept; it has been preached by all the philosophies and called karma as well. In short "As we sow so shall we reap".
Isn't there any respite? What if we want to change our course of action? We can really take a course of action but not without the constraints of options generated by the outcomes of our previous actions which I can safely term as fate. We endlessly face a world with options created by our own pasts but possess the freewill to choose our options. To be precise we program our fate and freewill.
Let us suppose that a person is at the point A now, and he has the freewill to move in any direction and suppose that he moves to point D intially.Now he has again the freewill to move in any direction although he has a liking to move to point F, but chooses to move to point E with his freewill for some reason. Now he decides to move to point F with freewill but with a difference, he has the current options are certainly influenced by his past actions.
He could have taken the shorter route at D to F, but now that he has chosen to move to point E, he had to travel some extra distance to reach F.Now we can say that he would still reach F , but he would have spent extra time or extra energy (speed) to reach there.
We have to certainly face the effects of the causes created by us and that does not deny us the freedom to liberate ourselves from the clutches of our past actions by our own will. This is what I mean when I vouch that we create our fate by our own thoughts, will and action.
I have some interesting questions? What determines the ability to see and generate options? What makes us to choose a particular course of action?
It is our perception that gives us the ability to do so. As usual, the age old story, perception is the process of acquiring, interpreting, selecting, and organizing sensory information. Our perception is limited by our field of experience. We define our courses by the limitation of our perception perse.
Till now I just discussed about the freewill and fate of a human in an isolated way. We obviously interact with the system around us and each of the individual components has their own freewill and fate. I can't resist telling the impact of one's freewill on the other.
What about our famous butterfly effect which refers to the idea that a butterfly's wings might create tiny changes in the atmosphere that ultimately causes a tornado to appear (or, for that matter, prevent a tornado from appearing).
I certainly feel that even our system as a whole has is subjected to freewill and fate. What about the possibilities of applying freewill and fate to the creation and creator (nick named god)?
So it all boils down to a simple butterfly flapping its wings eh which may determine our fate. which can ofcourse be altered by freewill as always... :)
interesting post..loved it..
Posted by
Sudarshan |
8:02 pm
i think settled fr an ugly compromise ; u hvnt still anwswered :) no one possibly will.
but anyway for th first time, i ws able to read to the end of ur post. u kept ur english proper n down to my level ;) thnx fr tht...
prolly u cn expct another one fm me Chaos: the tyranny of choice... :))
Posted by
Unknown |
12:55 am
RE: freewill
Freewill - "Turn or Burn"
http://beepbeepitsme.blogspot.com/2007/01/freewill-turn-or-burn.html
Posted by
beepbeepitsme |
7:51 pm