#nonwill

[thethirdi]

Free will is a fantasy to deny the reality of what happens by imagining it is what is done.

[thethirdi]

There isn't just nothing to be done, there's nothing doable.

What's done is just what happens.

[thethirdi]

There is nothing to exert will over.

There is nothing to choose.

[thethirdi]

There is no appearance of free will. It is not an illusion, it is an assumption made about the nature of what happens. Something happens and then the thought that it was willed by an individual arises after the fact.

[thethirdi]

Freedom from will.

[thethirdi]

Speculating about alternative pasts is imagining the impossible. Whatever has happened is all that could have happened.

[thethirdi]

You are only free to do what you choose.

[thethirdi]

Why, if a thought appears in my brain, is that evidence that I have chosen it, yet if a thought appears in another brain, I have not chosen that one?

Both are just thoughts appearing, yet one is laid claim to after the fact simply because it seemingly happened in the same brain doing the claiming.