Choice = Free Will?

Rogelio 2022-04-20 09:01:29

For three years, David took the M6 ​​bus to work every day, and one day, with a very small probability, he ran into Elis again on the same route. People from the Destiny Planning Bureau say that this person is too persistent. The hardest angel came to David and told David that if you choose Elis, you will be unknown, and if you don't choose Elis, you will realize your dream of politics and enter the White House. This is what life looks like after making different choices. However, David firmly chose Elis. Anyway, the two crossed the door of time and space, David let Elis choose, she can choose to turn around and leave to continue her ballet and dancer boyfriend marriage, or choose to continue to open the next door with David. The world behind the door is unknown, and David asks Elis if he wants to spend time with him. I thought of this door as an unknown future for each of us, who or how we choose to spend it with. In the end, Elis also chose to step into the world behind the unknown door with David, which is also like men and women who choose each other to face the unknown life together with themselves. It's really interesting, we always resist what is arranged for us and insist on making our own choices. Does this count as our free will?

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  • Harry Mitchell: [talks to David] You're going to look for her, aren't you? You won't find her. They'll make sure of it. Even if they weren't trying to stop you, there are nine million people in this city. You'll never find her. Forget about her. Move on with your life.

  • David Norris: What ever happened to Free Will?

    Thompson: We actually tried Free Will before. After taking you from hunting and gathering to the height of the Roman Empire we stepped back to see how you'd do on your own. You gave us the Dark Ages for five centuries... until finally we decided we should come back in. The Chairman thought maybe we just needed to do a better job of teaching you how to ride a bike before taking the training wheels off again. So we gave you the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Scientific Revolution. For six hundred years we taught you to control your impulses with reason, then in 1910 we stepped back. Within fifty years, you'd brought us World War I, the Depression, Fascism, the Holocaust and capped it off by bringing the entire planet to the brink of destruction in the Cuban Missile Crisis. At that point a decision was taken to step back in again before you did something that even we couldn't fix. You don't have free will, David. You have the appearance of free will.