Free Will (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by George Jelliss ⌂ @, Crewe, Saturday, September 04, 2010, 11:42 (4954 days ago) @ dhw

I think we have a very limited free will, if that is not a self-contradiction. Most of the decisions that we can make are within very limited parameters fixed by our environment and previous history. -If I go for a walk and come to a division in the path I can decide on a whim to take one direction rather than another, perhaps because I went the other way last time and would like to have a change. -If I switch on my computer thinking of making some improvements to my website I can find myself diverted into other lines by an email I have just received, or by a message I've read on a forum I often visit. So how far my decision to respond to the message is free or how far it is just a reaction to circumstances is debatable. I shall now exercise my free will and leave, to make the improvements to my website that I intended to do in the first place!

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GPJ


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