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Here is my take on free will. I hope I can explain it well enough that people understand.

For a long time I have not seen the contradiction between a single fixed future and free will.

The universe is four-dimensional, time being a dimension (though a very different kind of dimension from space).

The future only unfolds in one way. Each decision you make leads to one future, it does not split the universe into multiple futures. You can only choose one future. Therefore only one timeline exists, the one that we all travel on into the shared future that we all experience.

But we all have free will. We all make decisions that affect the present and those affects determine the future.

Some people take the logical step that if the universe must unfold in the one fated way, then we do not have the freedom to take a different path.

But this is incorrect. We do have the freedom to take a different path. We just don't do it. Because of who we are.

Fate isn't something outside of you that you are a slave to with no free will. YOU are the fate that is making the one true future. Or rather, you are a part of that fate, and you have perfectly free will.

Dissident Sound 9mo ago

our life is 100% the result of decisions we believe we make

however we don't actually make any decisions - the decisions are made by molecules in our brain and we simply become aware of these decisions and tell ourselves that we made those decisions because it feels like we did

but we didn't

we are actually just observing ourselves act like watching a movie in which we ourselves are the stars

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Mike Dilger ☑️ 9mo ago

This *can* be true if your define yourself narrowly. I define myself more broadly, so I am making the decisions, not just watching them.

Dissident Sound 9mo ago

i believe this was studied and determined that the actual moment decision is made precedes the moment when people become aware of the decision.

meaning your consciousness is the catcher and not the pitcher.

decision is made subconsciously and you later become aware of it consciously but believe that the decision was conscious.