What are your thoughts on the following hypothesis?
No one is free.
I can only do things, that follow the causative nature of the universe.
Quantum theory does not even suggest randomness, just a limit upon our measurement. (also to confuse theory as fact is a gross misuse of logic and science. theories can appear useful and repeatable, but can never be claimed as knowledge of what actually happens.)
Freewill is a concept and nothing else. I have only subjectively noticed than when ever I have a choice to be made, I think over the choices that are available to me (those choices I happen to consider.) compare the choices against logic, feeling and emotion (all of which I consider to be deterministic.) and choose an option (or not.) to follow. At not one point do I experience being able to chose other than the option I actually chose (only models in my mind of outcomes for the choices I consider.)
The only way to demonstrate freewill would be to reverse the sate of the universe back to a point in time where a choice is to be made and testing if I make a different choice. Of course this would me the reversal of all particles, energy and any other constituent of the whole universe, including my memory, so as to render it impossible for me to make the comparison even then. Even if was to be able to send a message back in time to my former self to describe the experiment, that in itself would violate the experiment by altering the state of the universe, so that it is not an exact replica of the original choice.
For consider freewill to exist, we would have to invent a concept that is non deterministic (violates Cause and Effect) and yet does not violate cause and effect as that would be RANDOM. and random choices are free only in that they violate causality and would not be guided by WILL.
I will believe that randomness does not exist. (And I don't mean highly complex so as to be difficult to measure, such as the toss of a coin or the spin of a roulette wheel. I mean random.) until proof of randomness appears.
If I walk down the street, that is not a free choice.
If a mugger, steals from me, that is not a free choice.
If a judge sentences a mugger to detention, that is not a free choice.
If the laws and values of a nation change, that is not a free choice.
More to follow on this, including a revised hypothesis on Freewill, Causality and Correlation/Coincidence......
