Simple_Min

Well if one is a firm believer in one or many faiths or in Quantum physics, how can we claim to have free will?

If you believe in a higher entity, then that higher entity has already determined your life span on this third rock from the sun.

Conversely if you know anything about Quantum (also touched upon brilliantly in the film) Mechanics then you know everything is not deterministic, but is probabilistic. Again, no room for free will.

I think the idea of free will is a personal thought. If you judge any of your actions, there is some "deterministic or motivating" force behind it. You making a hand gesture to give someone the finger has to be pre determined before you do it, so therefore it no longer would be called free will.

I said above that I feel this is a personal thought, and it should be because everyone has their own idea of love, hate, and other emotions, and mainly of what is true/false. And if your truth leads you to the conclusion that free will indeed does exist, then what does it really matter? In the end, it's irrelevant. Does a belief in one or the other threaten anything? Will other beings someday look at us and notice the subtle differences in our cultures and socities or will they notice what we have in common as a species.
"They say that dreams are real as long as they last, well, couldn't you say the same thing about life?"


I think it's been speculated/theorized what you just mentioned. This is applicable to the "mutliverse" theory that there are other universes that coexist with our universe. One subset of the mutliverse theory is as follows:

1) it is known that the solar system is just one "atom" in a huge mass of the milky way.
2) Our Milky way is just one atom in a huge mass of other galaxies.
3) Our universe is just one atom in another bigger universe.
4) That bigger universe is just another atom in another greater universe...
Iterate this process upwards and downwards.
I read that in the last month's issue of SA.