For starters, this thread is not about "free will". Actually it is about will.
The assertion is that there is no distinction between "my" will, "your" will, the will of the chair I am sitting on, the will of the squirrels running around in the park somewhere in my city, the will of Neptune spinning itself around who knows where.
Instead there is a single contiguous field of decision making that contains the entire universe, all of it. The emergent sentience of human neurons results in the creation of the feedback loop (
default network) to which we give the label "I".
So that appearance of an "I" is often debated;
thusly when we ask "do humans have free will", what we are actually asking in strictly rigorous terms is along the lines of "Can the default network of a human brain move anywhere in phase space?". In fact it's a very vague question and the vagueness of it has resulted in much philosophical flapdoodle over the millenia. This thread is not about the free will of any individuated appearance of a self!
What is also incredibly and amazingly overlooked is that we can preserve the useful aspect of determinism and throw away the paradoxical aspects of it.
This is only valid in a continually expanding universe with increasing entropy. The cause-effect chain is always preserved: that's the useful part of determinism.
The idea of zero freedom of movement can be thrown away entirely - it bears zero actual relation to
reality. This is because of entropy continually increasing. Let's not be deceived by the colloquial usage of "entropy".
Entropy does not mean decay. Decay is what happens as a natural result of entropy increasing, but life is a natural result! In fact, life and death are merely a subset of a more grand process, which we may call Tao.
Entropy is
defined as "the number of available microstates [i.e. particle positions, momenta] in relation to the number of macrostates [i.e. temperature, volume, pressure]". It is
literally the resolution of the universe. A huge number of possible micro-states correspond to a single macro-state but not vice versa.
This is how it dissolves both free will and determinism: each tick/clock cycle of the universe, there is an expansion and a corresponding increase in entropy.
So let's say for example your room is cold and you up the thermostat. In that expansion, the new macrostate is a higher temperature. The magic of the Omniself is that it chooses trillions upon trillions upon trillions of particle microstates, out of an unfathomably large though finite set of possible positions. Why place particle #54833028854930385876038201083244 in slot #9329876665559229039202098982100288340902000111898010002124493020202020399211111994466666666666? We perhaps will not be privy to that in this lifetime.
This is Will. The continual choice of a precise set of microstates for each and every quantum of spacetime, to create a given appearance. The important thing is that each second, the number of pixels, the number of arrangements is always increasing. This means that where last instant you had 4 choices to choose from, the next moment you have 16. Only one path can be chosen. That is Will.
But i didnt get that impression, otherwise, just watch using that in papers, it wont reflect well to the professor (if your at college).
represents some currently unknown function that operates on entropy and incorporates both the wavefunction and the stress-energy tensor of general relativity (this step expands the universe)
