Saturday, July 13, 2024

Decisions, Free Will, and Omnipotence

- Before you make a decision you do not know what you will decide.
- If you have no choice, it is because you have already made the decision.
- I am
- Everything is connected.

The puzzle is now, why does it not feel like I make decisions outside of my body?

- Am I not actually making decisions (even for myself)? No, I think, therefore I am making decisions.
- Have I forgotten those decisions? Perhaps, but if I truly wanted an alternative, I could always make the choice. So even if it was a forgotten prior decision, I must be implicitly allowing it to continue.
- What does it "feel like" to make a decision, for a human? We think we have a rational chain of thought that leads to a decision.  Cause and effect. Memory of the thought process and the feelings while making the decision.

Ah, but if I postulate that I am not the human, then it solves all those "feeling I made a decision" problems. I simply took the perspective of the human, thus giving up the memory of making decisions that were not up to the human to make.

Note: there is no real reason to make the postulation except that it has been part of traditional wisdom to consider it, and curiously it solves the problems.

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