We're all free willed! Yay!

I just demonstrated to my satisfaction that Free Will is conclusively victorious over predestination. I'll make it short and sweet:

Predestination is the same as Free Will unless the active permutations can be tracked and measured before they occur. If the permutations are known before they occur, then this knowledge invalidates the events of the permutations within the set that includes the measurement.

So if you know how the dice will fall, that knowledge will change the universe in which they fall, which includes the possibility of altering their fall. On any LOCAL level, predestination can appear to exist, but there is always a larger set where that predestination is an illusion.

Therefore, ultimately, free will wins! There is always n+1 where n is the set of permutations that is known, and 1 represents the unknown. The last permutation can never be known, because if it were, there would be a greater one beyond it. Eventually you come to the unknown set where free will dominates.

Wow! That's a relief! We're limited beings that might APPEAR to be not have free will sometimes, but in fact we do have it because there is always an unknown set that encompasses the final observer. Predestination is an illusion of scale.

No, no, don't thank me, I'm just happy to have cleared this whole matter up :)

(please post any rebuttals in the comment section below!)

Beginningthings

Blogs and I have an adversarial relationship. I have things to say, but my interests need to be segmented because they probably won't play well together. You know, the old Thomas Jefferson thing. Founding father, great man, glowing history... paging Ms. Hemings! Oh, and that too. Well, it just doesn't seem to go with the other stuff, but it really does.

Peoples is complex! And contradictory! If you don't get that, you haven't been paying attention to your life or the lives of others! But it's okay, you'd be shocked at how many people don't pay attention to their lives.

So I think we'll make this the intellectual blog, the higher thought functions blog. They're pretty well developed brain chunks anyway, and expressive as far as brain chunks go, so it's just as well.

I'll see about moving some random posts over from my other online blog, some of the things that present and support this facet of my me-ness.