Free will is the ability of agents to make choices unimpeded. Factors that might impede choice include metaphysical constraints (particularly forms of determinism such as logical, physical, biological, social or theological determinism), physical constraints (such as the requirements of the laws of science), social constraints (such as threat of punishment, censure, or imprisonment), and mental constraints (such as compulsions or phobias, neurological disorders, or genetic predispositions). … [Read more...]
Free Will: Fact, Faith or Philosophy?
Consciousness Situates at the Point of Tension . . .
The YIN MIND _______________________________________________________________________________ Consciousness Situates at the Point of Tension Between Stasis (form and substance) and Flow (continuity and connection) When and as consciousness turns towards stasis, the mind nourishes, constellates with and imparts a delay in consequences, free will, form and substance. When the mind turns in the direction of stasis, there is the data reduction, the statistical combination, the … [Read more...]
The Choice . . . Refuge versus Protection
The YIN MIND ____________________________________________________________________________________ The Choice Harvest - time Descrimination Refuge versus Protection [originally written in 1993] What we believe is what we assume to be true, for the sake of our behaviour, before we have any possible confirmation from exploratory experience. What we believe is the guideline assumptions for exploratory experience. We are captured or emancipated by our beliefs. This is true … [Read more...]
The Charge: The Space – Time Delay of Free Will
The Charge: The Space - Time Delay of Free Will The Charge Motion and its Magnetic Domain: the Source of Selfhood "The Cosmos was built by and upon the principles which became known as music, arithmetic and geometry; harmony, system and balance. By changing the rate of vibration - the wavelength and the frequency, so to speak - varying movement, patterns, forms and substances came into being. This was the beginning of the law of diversity which supplies endless designs for the … [Read more...]