Sunday, June 5, 2022

There is no "individual freewill"

There is no "freewill" as people currently claim there is. There is ONE freewill and that is the freewill of all existence, call it God's will if it helps.

The reason is that you did not freely choose who you would be born as, and as a baby you are basically a baby robot. Your genetics offer you the same type of basic programming you find in brand new ai ready to learn. However it is not YOUR choice on what you get to learn, it is your environment which teaches/programs you. 

Consider the self driving vehicles currently in  development. They utilize machine learning, and while they did have to program the basics of it (just like genetics) much of its growth came from machine learning. Of course the programers interject when it makes a mistake, but that doesn't mean it was NECESSARY to do so. Alternatively you could program it to recognize mistakes and slowly correct itself, however that would be costly and dangerous and that is the reason they intervene. If they did not however, the process would be much like our genetic evolution slowly improving upon itself. 

So the question then becomes, if AI does not have freewill, and an AI can be made to drive a vehicle then a driver who is driving safely and correct also does not have freewill. Driving however is much like life, there are rules and expections that we were taught and follow because we are a society. 

Here's what I think about individual freewill. First off you will never completely have freewill until you have the Godlike power to do anything. As people we react to the life we experience while weighing it against previous experiences and thus calculate our reaction. The only reason we are so cocky that we have freewill is that we cannot see how our programming operates in real time. Our will, will always be an influenced and dictated by outside actions so long as the outside environment is out of our control, therefore our will is not ours alone, but our will is a point in what makes up the larger collective will of endless action and reaction.

This isn't a bad thing necessarily, as a matter a fact I think it is a much needed thing to recognize that we share in a greater collective will. Too much importance has been placed on the recognition of our  individual selves and will, that our collective identity and the effects that we have on each other is ignored. Sure there may be laws we can pass to maybe minimize the damage of a school shooter, sure you can kill or arrest a school shooter, but nothing prevents the lives of those children being taken like taking responsibility as a people. Whether you were involved directly in their lives or not it should at the very least be a reminder to try to be good people and the consequences of our actions no matter how small  they are may have. Though as it stands it seems like people dont really care anyway.

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