Is The Future Predetermined?
Some may say a flip of a coin can be determined by the power of the flick, the wind, the weight and other factors, but is the future and your life set in stone?
Is The Future Predetermined?
The future doesn't exist... yet. Tomorrow doesn't exist yet, but discussions and inferences about tomorrow aren't pointless as they shape tomorrow. Similarly, discussions about the future, in regards to it being set by antecedent events and not randomly caused, isn't a fruitless debate. It bears some interesting and intuitive discussions, but the question I am asking is that are all our actions and future actions fixed?
Some may never consider that the future is "set". What we do determines where we go, what happens in the future. It comes down to our current actions. Every little second, every delay, every distraction completely changes the future events and the path of your life.
We have car accidents occurring constantly, and if you think about it if that person had slept in longer in their bed or woke up earlier or some other event that happened then it would never have occurred. It is also the same to say that certain events occur to lead to morbid incidents.
There have been so many times my mind changed at the last second to something unpredictable, resulting in a change of events throughout the day and maybe the rest of my life. We don't do things according to a future that is already set some would say.
"Do you believe that all events, occurring now, or occurring later in time, are caused by antecedent events?" Being the progression of events, we can objectively demonstrate the existence of time and the logical necessity of future incidents.
If we take this scenario and I am to go outside to smoke a cigarette. I will do so because of my nicotine addiction, because the weather is right, because I am in the mood for a cigarette, etc.. Nobody argues whether somebody can know absolutely what the future will hold, it would require omniscience, but that's not necessary for us to postulate that antecedent events logically cause, in a chain.
Every single future event turns into a previous event that once was the future, but that does not mean that one could've figured out that even. Things may help align to those synonymous outcomes, but I don't think everything can purely be read and determined.
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I remember seeing an answer to this question when referring to the number of dimensions there could be in existence. If free will does not exist, and thereby meaning the future is pre-determined, then there are no more than 4 dimensions, because a 4th dimension would represent all of this universe's "eternity" in a sort of 4th dimensional solid object that encompasses all of everything that ever was, is, or will be, all simultaneously. The beginning and end of the universe and everything in between would all exist at the same time, much like the top and bottom of a ball in 3D space exists at the same time. To go beyond this, suggesting that there are more than one of those solid objects - in fact an infinite number of them to represent all the possible variations of them - would be what's required to introduce something we might identify as "free will", as there would be infinite number of options for any given scenario you could encounter.
I guess it's wrong to assume that just because something exists in a certain amount of dimensions, it cannot understand higher dimensions. 3-dimensional objects change through the 4th dimension which is considered to be time or as you stated: eternity. You cannot see time, and you cannot transform or "use" time, but you can "feel" it and are pretty much forced to "travel" because of it. You know some part of it, yet you are not "in" it yourself. A great feature of the human mind is that it can imagine impossible things.
The diagram does show how there are different paths for all of us to follow. We are the ones to choose which pathway to go down.
I like to see it as each decision has a deterministic outcome, but we continually jump from one deterministic chain to another through our choices. So we have providence, but retain our free will.
In life we come to many different intersections.
Different paths which we can follow. Each one has an outcome that has been determined and set in stone but we have the power to choose willfully which path we want to go down. I think that is how I see it.
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That quote is a perfect way to describe my feelings on this subject. The future may be set in stone to a certain degree, but only to the point in which you allow it to be.
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Thats quite a confusing topic indeed. But I believe that the future is what you make it. There are many factors involved though
It does consist of many factors but in the end it truly shows how much power you have over your future and how each decision every second can completely revolutionise your life.
Yeaah. That's the real point. what you do channels the direction and speed by which your future shall be shaped
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Not all things possibly can have a causal antecedent, that is, if we are to assume there are only 3 dimensions. If we assume everything has a causal relationship, meaning all outcomes must be a product of some causes, it leads to a puzzling situation where this causal relationship must have been going on for forever, which is simply absurd. Putting this into a simple analogy, we can imagine this situation like this: You have asked someone else to borrow a pen. That person then asks another person to borrow a pen, and that another person asks another person to borrow a pen, and IF this must go on forever, meaning if all things must have a causal antecedent, you must never able to get a pen. If you EVER receive a pen, then it MUST mean that there was someone who is outside of this causal relationship that triggers the actual process of this causal chain-event. Simply put, in order for the causal relationship to be even triggered, there must be at least one event that is free of the causal relationship.
This shows, even though most things in our lives have a causal antecedent, in order for anything to exist and for you to be here today, there must have been a beginning that does not have a causal antecedent. Thus, in this sense, our existence alone proves that at least not all things are deterministic, or have a causal relationship.
Emmanuel Kant actually gives a highly convincing argument for free will in his Metaphysics of Morals. But I think that is out of the scope of this discussion, but be sure to check it out if anyone is interested.