free will

[patrick1386]

I am a newcomer to the site so I am sure the question I am about to ask has been asked many times so bear with me. As a person who occasionally has flashes of deja vu I wonder what implications Tony's theory has for free will, have I any control over my life if I am simply reliving it. If I can't change anything, can this not lead to total fatalism?

patrick1386

[Anthony Peake]

Hi Patrick,

Thanks for your question ... and great to see you on here.

Free will is very much central to the whole "Cheating The Ferryman" hypothesis. It may same, on first encountering my ideas, that a person is doomed to live the same life over and over again. This is not the case. Last night on BBC5 Live (a nationally broadcast radio station) I was asked that specific question. I answered that the crucial factor in all this is the "Everett Many-Worlds Interpretation" (MWI) and its iteration, the "Many-Minds Interpretation. I was asked by the interviewer (Stephen Nolan) to attempt an explanation of this theory. Whole books have been written attempting to explain exactly why many particle physicists believe this to be the only explanation for certain"observed" phenomena in the quantum world of the very small. Suffice to say I tried and, in my opinion, failed woefully as I simply did not have time.

However simply do a search on this site for this subject .... and check it out on my BLOGSITE.

Look forward to your comments.

Best Wishes

Tony

[A Dark Philosopher]

I am a newcomer to the site so I am sure the question I am about to ask has been asked many times so bear with me. As a person who occasionally has flashes of deja vu I wonder what implications Tony's theory has for free will, have I any control over my life if I am simply reliving it. If I can't change anything, can this not lead to total fatalism?

Hi Patrick. Yes, you are correct, this question has indeed been raised and discussed many many times. I will place some links below to a small handful to get you started. Persoanlly it depends to me just what is meant by 'free will' because we all act unconsciously and seeimgly instinctively at times with reactions that can't necessarily be described as freely derived from a will of intention. Plus, of course, as I've often stated you can make the decsion right now, as you read this, to either a) stay sat down or b) stand up. You may choose which to do right now but who can say that choice was a free one to make? Who can tell that you were always going to make that choice? Thankfully, the same applies the other way, who can tell that everything we do isn't freely willed.......

Consciousness Vs Will In The Peakeian Dyad
The World As Will And Representation And The IMAX
Will , Consciousness, Compassion?
Some Remarks On Free Will And Determinism
A Foray Into Will vs Consciousness

As you've also mentioned deja vu, you may be interested in the discussions in Deja vu, Consciousness, Time & English Pubs and my full paper here and also my comments on the whole nature of Free Will in the Conscious decision making process in my paper here

I hope some of these links help.

[dreamintheshell]

Patrick said:

I am a newcomer to the site so I am sure the question I am about to ask has been asked many times so bear with me. As a person who occasionally has flashes of deja vu I wonder what implications Tony's theory has for free will, have I any control over my life if I am simply reliving it. If I can't change anything, can this not lead to total fatalism?

As a convince pre-determinism, I can assure you it does not lead to total fatalism. The fog unable us to clearly see the future so we still have to live and make those choice that will make our life be better or worst.

The only thing it really does for me is to focus less on what I should have done and more on what I should do to make things better.

This is an other topic I think should be put on top of the list because I really want to have people feed back on this.