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This is probably Ne, though I am not sure. I will do one of my classic freetyping sessions and let you decide if it is similar:
Everything is predestined since everything is MOST LIKELYsubject to only physical laws, and everythinge is linked by cause and effect. I am hesitant to say the Big Bang was the beginning of space and time, but since the Big Bang is just a label we put on what appears to be the point at which everything in our OBSERVABLE universe was at a single point and although it ignores that for the past 13,820,000,000 (13.82 Billion) years, at least, space has been expanding and we are likely just observing what was just POSSIBLYonly a NANOSCOPIC speck of a much older, larger universe, I am going to call it the beginning for the sake of simplicity. Interestingly enough, though the models I have seen created by astrophysicists predict the creation of both matter and antimatter, for some reason, slightly more matter was created and our cause and effect chain was started. Everything we think and do is based on the firing of neurons, and since these neurons were created as a result of earlier events which ultimately have their roots in the initial start conditions of our observable universe. Nobody chooses to rob a bank any more than a meteor chooses to hit a planet or a rock chooses to roll down hill. The innate sense of morality most of us share is the result of natural selection because those morals benefitted group survival the most. Many species have become programed to accept group morality because those species that looked after their kind and worked with other living beings in their environment survived better than those that only entered aggressive competition with those of their own species and other species. The success of ant colonies (fascinating creatures!) for millions of years is evidence that when creatures form societies with group morals and norms, they tend to, but not alwayssurvive longer. Mutants that challenge these ideas about morality are often shunned by the greater population because most of these mutations are harmful to the societal organism and do not ensure group survival. Though I am not a trained astrophysicist nor a trained biologist and do not claim to be, this is both my understanding and analysis of the material put out by astrophysicists and biologists. We have an illusion of free will because having this illusion was a survival advantage and those who were fatalistic died off, allowing the idea of free will to dominate. That said, examination of the evidence I have leads me to the conclusion that free will is an illusion.
ADDITIONALLY this means predicting the future is simply a matter of information, and if one could have perfect knowledge of everything, one could predict everything until the end of time. That said, one could still create a flow chart of possible futures if one does not have perfect information, as I often do. As I gain information, I can assign probabilities to possible futures, and thus narrow my focus to consider less possibilities and improving my forecast.
"If one would divine the past, one could divine the future."
-Confucius, c. 500 BC
Everything is predestined since everything is MOST LIKELYsubject to only physical laws, and everythinge is linked by cause and effect. I am hesitant to say the Big Bang was the beginning of space and time, but since the Big Bang is just a label we put on what appears to be the point at which everything in our OBSERVABLE universe was at a single point and although it ignores that for the past 13,820,000,000 (13.82 Billion) years, at least, space has been expanding and we are likely just observing what was just POSSIBLYonly a NANOSCOPIC speck of a much older, larger universe, I am going to call it the beginning for the sake of simplicity. Interestingly enough, though the models I have seen created by astrophysicists predict the creation of both matter and antimatter, for some reason, slightly more matter was created and our cause and effect chain was started. Everything we think and do is based on the firing of neurons, and since these neurons were created as a result of earlier events which ultimately have their roots in the initial start conditions of our observable universe. Nobody chooses to rob a bank any more than a meteor chooses to hit a planet or a rock chooses to roll down hill. The innate sense of morality most of us share is the result of natural selection because those morals benefitted group survival the most. Many species have become programed to accept group morality because those species that looked after their kind and worked with other living beings in their environment survived better than those that only entered aggressive competition with those of their own species and other species. The success of ant colonies (fascinating creatures!) for millions of years is evidence that when creatures form societies with group morals and norms, they tend to, but not alwayssurvive longer. Mutants that challenge these ideas about morality are often shunned by the greater population because most of these mutations are harmful to the societal organism and do not ensure group survival. Though I am not a trained astrophysicist nor a trained biologist and do not claim to be, this is both my understanding and analysis of the material put out by astrophysicists and biologists. We have an illusion of free will because having this illusion was a survival advantage and those who were fatalistic died off, allowing the idea of free will to dominate. That said, examination of the evidence I have leads me to the conclusion that free will is an illusion.
ADDITIONALLY this means predicting the future is simply a matter of information, and if one could have perfect knowledge of everything, one could predict everything until the end of time. That said, one could still create a flow chart of possible futures if one does not have perfect information, as I often do. As I gain information, I can assign probabilities to possible futures, and thus narrow my focus to consider less possibilities and improving my forecast.
"If one would divine the past, one could divine the future."
-Confucius, c. 500 BC
. Sums up what the Christian God probably works if he exists. I have always been convinced that God in the bible is a bored teenage boy playing Sims. No one else bar a bored teenage boy on Sims could come up with the Job business.
