My Thoughts On Free Will And The Human Mind.
This could also be called; "you have no free will and you are a product of an order too complex for any of us to see."
What you might think of as your mind right now is at the lowest level nothing but atoms. These atoms link together to make molecules, and the molecules make proteins and then neurons. These neurons send back and forth chemical and electrical signals. At what point do we suddenly declare that we have free will? Does the atom have free will, or the molecules or the proteins? Can other things have free will? I don't think atoms are capable of choosing destinies. I think they like to bond with the closest atom.
You can throw the whole idea of a "mind" into this, but there's no mind. Where is the mind? Does it hover above the material universe just mere inches away? There is no such thing as a mind and those that believe it are just trying to comfort themselves, because the universe is nothing more than a vast collection of atoms. Atoms do not have minds or free will.
These atoms have all combined in the same exact ways determined by their relative positions during the big bang, and will go along a pre-determined path. There are no alternative futures. If there was a parallel universe, we wouldn't be able to enter it. There is only this one reality, and we are doomed.
If anything, take some consolation in that perhaps one day we will figure out the equation of the whole universe, and predict past and present and future indefinitely. Then we can kill ourselves, just as planned.
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