Very interesting theory. It's important to remember that humans can only will things in a deterministic way (say, I want to drink water I have to pick up a glass and drink) whilst God wills things indeterministically, since he is immaterial and the immaterial is unbound. I think, personally, that freedom is the lack of restriction, just like how darkness is the lack of light. The physical realm itself is a culmination of restrictions, since it has to obey the laws of physics and logic (while the immaterial realm is subject only to the laws of logic and is unbound by nature). So while will can *be free* to some extent, it is not possible for it to reach absolute freedom due to the presence of laws. Great videos as always.
Let me expand: Are you free to not need to breath the air to survive? Are you free to not require lungs, a heart, blood, etc.? Are you free to choose how your cells will metabolize fats and sugars? Are you free to choose your DNA before you are born so you can determine your physical traits? And, are your muscles free to do as _they_ please, or are they subservient to _your_ conscious actions? -etc., etc... How is it that every observable phenomenon is not free to determine how it manifests, where it goes, or what it does, but somehow we humans which are made of precisely those observed phenomenon are able to engage in "free-will"? The logical reality is that we are "free" to do what we can and will do, as governed by the confines of a completely non-free Universe. If an atom is not free to determine what it will do and where it will go, and is instead governed by everything else in its environment, then so are we. Just because we FEEL we have free-will doesn't mean we do. We all carry this bias with us, as our conscious experience functions as the centralized _decider_ for the body-organism. That is its (consciousness') 'purpose'. And so this bias is the only thing needed for most people to conclude that we have free-will. It is simply an inherent bias to feel as though this is the case.
Very interesting theory. It's important to remember that humans can only will things in a deterministic way (say, I want to drink water I have to pick up a glass and drink) whilst God wills things indeterministically, since he is immaterial and the immaterial is unbound. I think, personally, that freedom is the lack of restriction, just like how darkness is the lack of light. The physical realm itself is a culmination of restrictions, since it has to obey the laws of physics and logic (while the immaterial realm is subject only to the laws of logic and is unbound by nature). So while will can *be free* to some extent, it is not possible for it to reach absolute freedom due to the presence of laws. Great videos as always.
I'll save you some time:
No.
Let me expand:
Are you free to not need to breath the air to survive?
Are you free to not require lungs, a heart, blood, etc.?
Are you free to choose how your cells will metabolize fats and sugars?
Are you free to choose your DNA before you are born so you can determine your physical traits?
And, are your muscles free to do as _they_ please, or are they subservient to _your_ conscious actions?
-etc., etc...
How is it that every observable phenomenon is not free to determine how it manifests, where it goes, or what it does, but somehow we humans which are made of precisely those observed phenomenon are able to engage in "free-will"?
The logical reality is that we are "free" to do what we can and will do, as governed by the confines of a completely non-free Universe. If an atom is not free to determine what it will do and where it will go, and is instead governed by everything else in its environment, then so are we.
Just because we FEEL we have free-will doesn't mean we do. We all carry this bias with us, as our conscious experience functions as the centralized _decider_ for the body-organism. That is its (consciousness') 'purpose'. And so this bias is the only thing needed for most people to conclude that we have free-will. It is simply an inherent bias to feel as though this is the case.