Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Free will

“This is, again, difficult to explain, but free will operates in all units of consciousness, regardless of their degree – but it operates within the framework of that degree.  Man possesses free will, but that free will operates only within man’s degree – that is, his free will is somewhat contained by the frameworks of time and space.
“He has free will to make any decisions that he is able to make. This means that his free will is contained, given meaning, focused, and framed by his neurological structure.  He can only move, and he can only choose therefore to move, physically speaking, in certain directions in space and time. That time reference, however, gives his free will meaning and a context in which to operate.  We are speaking now of conscious decisions as you think of them.”
(Dreams, “Evolution” and Value FulfillmentSession 904)

Perhaps the best example of free will within an entity's framework comes from particle physics.  Basically, the probabilities in quantum mechanics can be interpreted as a characterization  of the average choices made by the free will quantum particles under study since the actual behaviour of a single quantum particle is unknown - only the average behaviour of many particles can be estimated.


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