What is Free Will?
It’s not hard from a verbal / spiritual / humanistic perspective to define free will… it’s the ability to decide what you think, free (at least partly) from outside influences such as other people, gods, or physics.
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Free Will and the Nature of Time
There is only one point in time, and everything is always there.
The basis for this is physics, but it impacts philosophy, religion, and everyday life, including our understanding of free will.
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The Paradox of Sports and Free Will
The paradox of sports
The paradox of sports is this: you need to believe you have a 100% chance of winning in order to have a 50% chance of winning. If you don’t believe in your heart that you’re going to win – not that it’s automatic, but that you have the right combination of talent, practice and divine favor – then you have little chance of winning.
Does Free Will Exist?
According to classical physics, everything is causal. Though classical physics always allowed that spirituality, and possibly some aspect of life, were outside the realm of physics. To the extent those were part of thing, it was pretty much assumed that people had free will. That we could make decisions independent of physics, which was causal, or spiritual forces like good and evil, which were driven by supernatural beings or forces. Sure we were influenced by them, yet we had the ability to make free will decisions, and a thing called free will existed.
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