As Free As You Want to Be

July 30 2010, 1:29pm

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/07/my-first-act-of-free-will/

On the idea of this matter of influence of desires and beliefs, it is possible to build an endless construction of beliefs and desires about beliefs and desires.

Favorite succinct comment from the article: I posit that free will does not exist. . 1.) All that exists in the universe is comprised of matter and/or energy. 2.) Nothing that exists outside the universe can affect anything that exists within. 3.) All interactions of matter and energy, including on the quantum scale, are governed by immutable laws, whether these laws are known or unknown. 4.) Consciousness is a product of interactions between matter and energy within the brain subject to the aforementioned laws. If one accepts the enumerated statements above as true, then the only logical conclusion is that the fate of every individual in history, and indeed that of every particle of matter in the universe, was irrevocably fixed at the very moment the universe was first conceived.