i am 100% athiest. i in no way believe in god. i am not strictly athiest either. there are people who say they are athiest, but they go around trying to convince people to become athiest. these people are not athiest, they are just as religious as the hardcore christian. i am not one of them. i do not believe in god, that does not mean i believe that there is no god. i am open minded. one could call me an athiest buddah. (there, that should clear up any future misconceptions about me).
so on to my post: my idea is that everything is in fact chemical reactions, and that free will and emotions are all psuedo-illusions. atoms react in the tiniest ways, and the largest ways, all ways affect the chemical reactions that decide our free will, emotions and everything else. the uncertainty principle says that we cannot know with 100% certainty where a particle will be at any one time. it does not say particles are in random places, but that particles are constantly being knocked around by other particles, waves, forces and everything else. (this was the background to my idea).
my idea of free will and stuff is that, it is all chamical and electro-magnetic reactions and the like. all of these things are affecting everything else in many ways (if you do not understand the concepts of infinity and chaos theory, what follows will be extremely hard to understand). our brains are a clump of cells that are specifically designed to react to certain inputs and send electric signals to other cells in the body. every person's brain is different. the amount, density, and position of these cells and areas of the brain are very different from person to person. these differences are what make the differences in our personalities.
our brains are constantly taking in information about everything that is happening around you. our brains analize this information thouroughly by finding similarities, even the tiniest ones, in previous experiences. our brains form very highly educated guesses about what this information means, what could happen in the future, what is likely to happen in the future, what you should do to make yourself happy, what is likely happening outside of this information that could help or hinder your actions. your brain will try to do what it thinks is best, and will have the best oputcome. what determines what is best is what your emotions are at the time, which is determined by previous analisies, and analysing all previous experiences with previous analisies.
your emotions include and are not limited to: relationships with everyone you know (love, like, hate, lust, envy, annoyed), which is, in turn, affected by their relationships with everyone they know, and so on and so fourth; motivation (what you want to do, why you want to do it, how you want to do it, what happened the times you did it before, what happened when other people did it, what your relationships say about it, etc.); and your morals or beliefs (what you think is right, whether and how you focus on others or yourself, who affects you, things like that)
all of this is what determines what you do, and is free will (plus some more things undetermined by me). it is pointless to think you don't have free will because then you won't have any purpose in life. it is just that our free will is a set of infinite chemical reactions, but what we do is still based on our personalities and emotions. even though our personalities and emotions are the external evolution of a society (a.k.a. what your parents think, what your friends think, what your pets think, what your teachers think, what your other family members think, what the government/media thinks, what other countries and/or cities and/or towns and/or continents think. and what they think is based on what previous generations thought/think, and so on and so fourth).
so, i guess i believe is psuedo-free will
P.S. sorry for the long post, but it's a complicated thing :zzz:
