Ask HN: What Is a Freedom for You?

I am agnostic about the question of free will. It appears that I have it, so I'll continue to act as if I do. Whether or not that's actually true in the larger picture is interesting to speculate about, but there's no way to know either way and the answer to that question would have no bearing on my daily life.

Freedom is not the ability to choose, freedom is the ability to create choices for one’s self.

I drive a nail in the heart of determinism: the exogenous (an outside source) and decay (atomically in the extreme) are beyond any account of any “contained system.” All theorists are lying to themselves. They believe in imaginary numbers. Come now!

Free will is a funny other thing.

It is not that will cannot be influenced, or based on deterministic rules, it is “free” when not coerced through force or fraud.

We are self guiding probably matrixes inside, yet will is literally “the determination of resolve.” I like to say “the determination of resolve in the moment of now” to make it clear our fickle internal “states” are not actually true until the moment of resolution.

After all of this, many among you are mind slaves of thought control.