What is Free Will? Just a Freedom of choice or freedom of conscious choice?
I`d agree that no one asked us to choose to be born and to be born with
particular set of genes and social environment (unless there exist some life
before life
)
What means free? free from what? First of all how many of us free from
ourselves (in any meaning of this phrase)? From our own stupidity, laziness,
uncertainity, arrogance, excessive rationality and such?
What is
to make a choice ? Isn`t it to realize one particular act among various possibilities ? Which one you bring to realization? the one which is given by fate? The one which will be generously spared to you by whatever constraint? Or is it the one brought to reality by your hard work?
You are free as long as you are able to
- put up with initial conditions,
- accept the history of your own mistakes without justifying them by various
constraints life might impose (they usually make much lesser part than effect
of one`s own efforts or lack ot them)
- be ready to face the responsibility brought by chosen action
- and be able to change your own attitude when you can`t change the situation