Random Musings After a Long Hiatus

[dhiga]

You come to a point in your life where you make the realization that you are not the main character in the story that is unfolding. I think I've held center stage at a few points in my life, and that certainly informs me as to the difference to me about being in the foreground or the background. When you are not a main character, your successes,

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[glue]

but it was poignant.

[dhiga]

I don't deny the intellectual appeal of the notion of free will. But...isn't free will bound by causality? I'm with Einstein in thinking that underlying a probabalistic universe is one dominated by direct causality. In other words quantum model is a good model of the universe at a unit of analysis we currently comprehend, but couldn't it be that a probabalistic universe is only so because of our inability to capture the causal nuances at a level below our theoretical constructs?

The analogy is this, causality is like a fabric (heh heh), and individual free will are like fingers poking at the fabric, trying to influence events. Sure, we can poke, but the more people poking fabric, the more taut the fabric is. Therefore there are times and places where an individual can assert some influence on causality, but typically, individuals cannot change the flow of events appreciably, hence no free will. Err...thats how I think of it anyway.

Free will does not exist in a vacuum, and is bound by context. =)