... My blog shall never truly die. Well, unless the site goes down I suppose. At any rate I'm nominally back from my hiatus now that the call of job/school drags most of my friends away to their work/studies and I'm left talking to myself (figuratively on here, and sometimes even literally).
I had a thought the other night.
Destiny and free will, I don't believe either exists beyond the realm of subjective thought. Destiny and free will are both ideas, and they exist or fail to exist depending not on any great objective truth, but in relation to other ideas.
In science there is destiny, a single reaction to any particular action (though in modern science it is admitted that humans will not always be able to know both action and reaction). With regards to scientific concepts and tracking all things as matter, energy and force there can be a destiny.
In our personal lives there is choice. We can decide to get up out of bed, or we can decide to stay there. If we begin to percieve that our choices are predetermined it will actually alter those choices from what they would have originally been. For each action we try to predict we will alter the results creating a continuingly reactive reality in which our choices and beliefs can be shown to have effect that can change each time we try to predict it.
And in the world outside our minds there is neither. The universe in its objective state functions without the conception of a future, without the conception of a crossroad, and indeed without any conception at all. Outside our mind there is nothing to conceive.
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