(S.1) The perception of in
the mind of unus to chose an action independent
of either physical determinism or biological
determinism is we shall call free will.
No evidence of any material cause or effect of free
will being a part of reality exists and, as
such, free will is held to be a false perception.
That is, free will is a myth held
in the mind as false knowledge. And of myths we
need not speak.
(S.1.1) The perception of
free will in the conscious mind is
common but the perception itself occurs in time
present and derives from knowledge of an
action in time past. Indeed, by the time we
have the conscious thought that we will act as a
result of free will the brain has already determined
what the action will be or has already been taken, sometimes by
as much as 7 seconds. No material evidence can be found
for a cause of an action of free
will to occur after consciousness. The effect
of the decision held in consciousness, however,
may occur in time future. " I have decided to go to
town tomorrow." Only a physical reason can give rise a physical
cause for an action in time future.
In this regard, the emotions of desire and fear play key but
not exclusive roles as a cause of actions initiated in both time
present and time future. "It is too hot to go
to town this afternoon." Such emotions as revenge,
love, hate are also strong sources of reason for actions
perceived as those of free will.
(S.2) It follows that the actions of all unus are
the result of either physical determinism or once removed biological
determinism inherent in living things. Physical
determinism presents a single degree of freedom of
action while biological determinism presents two or more
degrees of freedom of action which physical determinism of
the physical brain resolves to a single degree of freedom
of action as a result of mental processes performed
by the physical brain in accordance with the laws of
nature. Indeed both mind and consciousness are
products of physical processes of the physical
brain.
(S.3) We often consciously wish for a thing
or action to become a reality but the
wish follows the failure of the brain and unus to
make the reality happen. The wish may be
stored in memory until the brain and unus
are capable of making the reality happen. We also capable of
creating a wish for an outside agency to cause
the reality to occur in lieu of causing it
ourselves. Our brain can create wish, make decisions
about actions and prompt the execution of those actions but conscious itself
has no free will to decide those actions actions.
Consciousness can only provide mental awareness of
the decisions made and actions taken.
(S.4) Does one "fall in love" with someone or something as a result of some free will choice? No.
That happens from experiences producing the emotions associated with love. Indeed, the ancient Greeks
defined 6 distinctively different emotions of love:
(1) eros or sexual passion and desire,
(2) philia or deep comradely friendship towards fellow man,
(3) ludus playful love of affection between children or young lovers.
(4) agape or love for everyone
(5) pragma long standing or mature love as that developed between long-married couples
(6) philautia or self-love.
Does one choose which of these they feel about someone or something? No.
Similarly these emotions of love my change with experience pragma commonly evolves from eros.
Or the emotion of love may evolve to the emotion of hate and thus providing work for divorce lawyers.
Did this transformation occur as a result of free will? No. It occurred as the effect of the cause
of a change in environment.
(S.5) Because lack of proof is not logical
proof of a truth, that free will could
possibly exist cannot logically be precluded any more so
than any other belief held as a truth without
proof.
(S)Free will is the illusion of the conscious mind that decisions made in the brain and action taken by the corpus are done so at the will of the conscious mind rather than by mental processes in the brain in response to the awareness of some experience