Free Will

One of the most debated philosophical thing is this. Free will means you have a say in what you do. I like this definition from UrbanDictionary :
the idea that you could have acted in a different way the idea, that alternative actions are possible for you, the idea that you did not have to do what you did, the idea that you have a choice about what you do, the idea that you are responsible for your actions.
When confronted by a woman’s cleavage, he could not help but look. At that moment he knew free will was a myth”. Will is free if seen on the surface but go back a little, a little deeper, you’ll find it’s not.

We are a product of all our earlier years of life. When we arrived in the world, the mind, the driving force of our world, was blank. We were taught stuff by our parents and teachers and everyone else. So the blank board of mind was filled in by everyone else. If you chose something at the age of five, it’s as a result of the things others put in your mind from the last four years. The mind is like those logic gates or a mathematical equation. For a particular input, that is, for a particular situation or environment, the output is always the same. It’s predetermined. It’s constant.

At a time if you’ve two choices, say, you can either eat an apple or an orange. You choose an apple because you mind knows that it’s good for your health and tasty because that’s the data people put in your mind. After all what’s taste and what’s health? Taste is subjective and health is anything that’s good for your body but, exactly what’s good for health when your body evolves based on the surroundings. It accepts and acclimatized. Maybe apple would’ve been poisonous if it wasn’t for our ancestors. Ok, now you see them both and go for an orange because you have free will. That’s because apple is your first choice and you want to prove to yourself or someone that you’ve free will and you choose orange but, look back, the wheels have already been set in motion. You’ve read somewhere about free will and there you’d lost your free will. At that time it’s decided your next choice would be the inverse of your usual choice. This seems like an arguement for arguement’s sake even to me. meh. I’m saying you don’t have free will because you existed in the last moment, ain’t I. You exist in this moment only because you existed in the last moment. You didn’t have any free will when you were born, atleast none you’ve knowledge of. Extrapolating from that, you don’t have free will. Suprise! Suprise!!

So at any time, whatever you like is something you know someone else likes. This conforms to Spinoza’s theory that the Earth and life is a continuum and we are simply instances of something big. We’re one.