2/23/12

As an American, we hear the word free will a lot. We live in country that allows us to feel how we want to feel and say what we want to say. But in a more philosophical view free will is the humans ability to chose out of more than one option without the laws of physics interfering. It also means that nothing in our lives is determined, that the choices that we make determine what is to happen next. But to take it a step deeper, what if our thoughts and actions are determined but we just don't think they are? Like we think that we are making decisions on our own but really the world had it already determined that we would think that way. If this idea that our thoughts are already determined, there is no way we would be able to know because we cant tell the future. We can't reason our way though the illusion of free will and because of that we will never know if free will really does exist.