I have
noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do
nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."
--Stephen Hawking
--Stephen Hawking
yes, I
am back to the age old question that keeps daunting on me..."Free will
versus Determinism"...so, is everything predetermined or do we have some
kind of free will...I certainly am not a determinist...but I do have some faith
in destiny... Sir Issac Newton who is considered the greatest physicist of all
time was a determinist... he believed that all our actions are predetermined
and we can do nothing to alter it... but according to Dr. Michio Kaku, co-founder of the string theory, reality is somewhat different...he believes that there is some free will in what we do...Newtonian
Determinism says that the universe is a clock, a gigantic clock that’s wound up
in the beginning of time and has been ticking ever since according to Newton’s
laws of motion… So what you’re going to eat 10 years from now on January 1st
has already been fixed… It’s already known using Newton’s laws of motion…
Einstein believed in that... Einstein was a determinist…
Heisenberg then comes along and proposes the Heisenberg Uncertainty
Principle and says: “Nonsense. There is
uncertainty... You don’t know where the electron is… It could be here, here or
many places simultaneously.”...This of course Einstein hated because he
said God doesn’t play dice with the universe… Well hey, get used to it…
Einstein was wrong… God does play dice… Every time we look at an electron it
moves… There is uncertainty with regards to the position of the electron…
So what does that mean for free will? It means in some sense we do
have some kind of free will… No one can determine your future events given your
past history… There is always the wildcard… There is always the possibility of
uncertainty in whatever we do…
So when I look at myself in a mirror I say to myself what I'm
looking at is not really me… It looks like me, but it’s not really me at all…
It’s not me today now... It’s me a billionth of a second ago because it takes a
billionth of a second for light to go from me to the mirror and back…Weird but
true…
4 comments:
Hey what is free will exactly....
free will means that you are the master of your fate...according to free will...there's nothing as such destiny or predetermined things...it means if you want something you can get it...
on the other hand determinism means that everything is predetermined...from what you are going to eat today to what you are going to wear tomorrow...and you can do nothing to change it
Okay.... hey i too believe in determinism, but still i think fate can be changed...
so the question is where do i fits in??
i don"t know for sure...but i feel there must be some sought of free will..otherwise why else even be here
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