Another morning

I awake and shake

My tired head

Warm the old

Cold coffee

That’s when the panic hits me

‘My God!, you lunatic!

What have you done?

Look what you wrote!

Do you remember what you said?

You imagined it all! ‘

A dreadful waking fever dream

Curse these amygdalan frenzies

A Fragile Living Skin

Continued from:

Free Will Or Freedom? - Part 1

1. Introduction
2. The Free Will Tyrant
3. Free Will T: Mammals, Human
4. History Is Led By Outliers Of A Group
5. The Impact on Concepts Like Justice
6. The Interplay of Individual and Collective Freedom
7. Footnotes

Introduction

The distribution of steam molecules in a room, how the molecules will change location and how long it will take for them to become water again are all potentially determinable. However, at the most fundamental scale of where each molecule is exactly and where it is moving from and to, it becomes increasingly difficult and fuzzy – in fact, at the sub-atomic level, certainty becomes impossible. [1] Certainty (determinism) at any scale is only approximate – the smaller the scale or the larger the field (including space-time) in question, the more difficult it becomes to measure and to calculate all the variables. [2] Entropy is the universe’s way of ensuring we are all honest players when it comes to knowing the future, though some may know more than others.

1. Free Will
2. Freedom of Action
3. Degrees of freedom
4. The Twin Thought Experiment
5. Measuring freedom of action in writing
6. Measurable unusualness
7. Footnotes

Vincent van Gogh, “Landscape with Snow”, 1888, Wikipedia, public domain.

“Be melting snow, Wash yourself of yourself”
(Rumi)[1]

Free Will

The laws of physics are wonderful, not least because they show us some of the magic formulas behind the seeming mystery of life and the universe. They are also good and proper ‘laws’ – that is, they are intended to be equivalent across space and time.