Originally Posted by albania

I often find that when someone brings up the subject of interconnectedness they fail to see the true philosophical implications. How do people see interconnectedness? I visualize it as strings reaching all things and people, finite and infinite strings each one describes what we have in common to everything attached to the string. This whole mass then becomes the very embodiment of a related existence.

Think about it carefully though, there is another way to look at the strings, they don't only connect us they trap us. Can there possibly be freedom in such a system? By necessity any action that I take is only an action that can be displayed and connected to a string. In this interconnected world I can not make any value judgments; I can only display behavior that is confined by everything around me. Something in this world is not good or bad it is simply is at most a minute part of this creature that embodies everything. What I’m trying to get across is almost the carbon copy of a predestination argument, where does this leave or free will?

People don’t often think about it in this way. To me it seems more appropriate to comment on it tersely. There are indeed things that everything has in common but they hold no deep meaning; they are a statement of fact and not a demonstration of some abstract universal truth.