RE: Free Will Choice and Causal Determinism
With great power comes great responsibility.
This is what I learned as a young man reading Spider-Man. I have held on to it ever since.
This is one of my favorite topics. I have a view on it, but it's one that I often struggle to find the words for, neither in English, or my native language.
But I say that free will is not real in the way people often perceive it, but it is real as a social construct. And that doesn't make it less real. Even if the word "social construct" has been tainted by certain groups using it in their politicized world view.
I've written about it in the past here: https://steemit.com/freewill/@schattenjaeger/how-free-is-your-will-the-question-of-free-will-and-moral-agency
I say that we can and do have a moral agency even in a deterministic world. It's just what most people think.
But there is free will, the degree of it's presence is greater or lesser according to each person's level of conscious awareness of things, such as social conditioning, etc. To break free from the manipulation, one has to become aware it is there to begin with.
There are degree of freedom with which people can actualize their free will potential. With conditioning into society and falsity, the degree of freedom is highly restricted with not real authentic free thought, but programmed and conditioned false thought patterns and procedures that are shared in common with the rest of homogeneous society, along with a default of the unconscious thinking that conforms to those base patterns induced from society.
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