On the illusion of free will
Let’s start off with a mental experiment. I want you to visualize a strait line with infinite length, and it must not vanish into the horizon as that would not be visualizing infinity, that would be picturing a line fading out into a finite length. I want you to really picture infinity, so take a moment…
All done? For those who were able to actually picture infinity, I must inform you, that you suffer a placebo and are most likely, very much susceptible to wishful thinking. The human consciousness is finite and cannot process the hypothetical mass of an infinite area. Infinity is incomprehensible to our species and should be to all potential biological intelligences restricted in finite space. If consciousness is materialized in space/time, it is restricted to finite limits relative to finite space. It cannot be infinite, and cannot therefore process an infinite mass of information. We must deduce infinite space to be a mathematical entity not to be confused with the experience of biological consciousness restricted in the universe. Freewill is an absolute, in that it dictates decisions free of influence from anything. Free will, like infinity, cannot fit into a finite mass, where all actions result from prior actions, which result from prior actions, and so on until the birth of the universe, or an equivalent initialization of matter. By definition, free will has to exist outside the realm of a reaction in order to function, it is otherwise determined by a force, that was itself determined. This is the inevitable result in all closed systems. We maintain this logic as long as there exists, no situation, that cannot be sequenced or composed by reactive processes.
Consciousness directly creates the illusion of freewill. The functionality of our awareness yields an increased complexity in the behavioral algorithms of our species, which seemingly appear non-algorithmic. However, Our closest biological competitors display most of the same behavior. Modernization has responded by the exponentiation of variables which create a non-linear effect in the observation of human kind. Resulting complexity builds on itself to increasingly higher complexity. However. the complexity achieved is only a greater definition of the same awareness and is subjected to the same limitations as anything in containment of finite space.
Let’s pretend the big bang is a recurring process. We must acknowledge two possible outcomes Either the big bang repeats its process in the exact same way, every time, or there is a randomization of material sequencing in the observation of space/time. Randomization does not warrant or suggest freewill, it only means you are the reactive process of our big bang. Free will, again, describes an immaterial idea that can only function within an infinite space, not choreographed by reaction. Free will must essentially be the same thing as infinity, and is not applicable in the mechanics of human behavior.
Even physical laws are only as absolute as space/time itself, which by its very finite beginning, forces an ending. As that which is infinite has no relationship with a beginning, as a beginning is exclusively finite.
It may turn out that such materialized big bang explosions are finite parts of an infinite mechanism. Brief fireworks of matter in a sky of an unknown incomprehensible medium. It may turn out, as my best guess is, that infinite space is only infinite related to finite space. And that the universe as we know it, is finite, but only finite pressed against the backdrop of infinity.
I theorize the universe a container. This container may be parallel to other closed systems or dimensions, and may exist in a theoretical ambient infinity. Anyway, I’m just starting to teach myself advanced math so that maybe I can contribute beyond that of philosophical means, as these are just my logical assumptions based on what I currently know. I’ll give you an update when I learn more or when someone posts a comment to correct me.
