Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Jan 20, 2025 12:19 pm
Free will means we are responsible for what we do in proportion to what we do. If someone is unjustly killed by someone else, then the murderer can be guilty of pre-meditated murder or they can be guilty of manslaughter. That is to be decided by a court based on what can be established to have happened and the perpetrator ought to be sanctioned accordingly.
If someone rescues a baby from a burning building, then they rescued a baby from a burning building and deserve accolades at the very least. Choices produce results. And results ought to be considered. A person who commits premeditated murder is responsible for murder and deserves to be tried accordingly. A person who rescues a baby from a burning building, made a monumental, herculean decision to risk their own life in order to do so. It ought not be viewed that they were "pre-determined" to do so. No. they truly are a hero in every way shape or form in proportion to the circumstances of the situation and the decision that was made.
No one is choosing to do anything except as a belief there is a person who is choosing. The person aka the ( I ) is a self-writing mirage, the brain is artificially constructing. Notice there is no creature outside of the human creature who is responsible for their actions. So why are humans made to be responsible?
That's a brain construct unique to the human brain. Perhaps it's how the big one singular meta universal consciousness wanted to get to know itself, as and through finite little (my eyes)
But of course, yes, as a human brain, we all have to pretend and act responsibly as if my (I) is the one choosing an action, because that's just how the human brain appears to operate. Even though, all our little (my eye) decisions are made before (my eye) is aware of it, meaning choice is only ever made on an unconscious neural level. If every choice was made immediately on a conscious level, that would leave room to change the choice. But that's not how reality works, reality is one continuous singular movement, that does not work in reverse. So in reality, what is done in the immediacy of the moment, can never be undone by a change of mind, well not until it's already too late to change the mind.
The body's action is simply to mimic what the brain has already decided to do, and the result is only a reaction, never an action. What is doing the doing are 'automatic' mechanisms that connect our decisions of what we want to do to the actual execution of it. There is no separation between the will to do something and the execution of it. It's all the brain, braining.
There is no co-pilot piloting the brain braining activity. So yes, all our ''assumed'' actions, the beliefs believed to be an action-man living inside our head, are in fact predetermined by the brain. And not by some person inside the brain who believes in it's own will to have power over controlling an action.
In reality, nothing is controlling anything that happens, and that anything that does happen is a self-writing mirage constructed by a brain. But of course we cannot just single out the brain for the decisions it makes, because whole bodies are attached to brains. So that's a metaphor for no thing is responsible for it's actions, or, every thing is responsible for it's actions.
And that's the game being played. No thing is pretending to be every thing, or, every thing is pretending to be no thing. Same ONE