Hi!
Interesting article, and linked to a question that I pondered for myself as well for some time, notably this notion that our brain is aware of things before we are. But this fact is taken out of context and relies heavily on the materialistic/physical reality to serve as “proof” that free will doesn’t exist. I would say that our brain is aware of a decision simply because our perception of reality is flawed.
Whenever you move a finger, what really happens?
On one level of reality, what happens is the following:
Your brain sends a neurological signals to the muscles in the finger, which moves the finger into it’s new place. But is that really so? Don’t forget that you are asking all of the constitutive elements of your finger to “move” as well! You are asking the muscles to make your fingers move. The muscles ask the individual cells that compose them to move, the cells ask the molecules they are made up of to move, the molecules ask the atoms they are made of to move, the atoms ask the quarks/photons they are made of to move, the photons ask the energy that they are made of to move… Don’t forget that the scientific explanation about how matter moves stops at the atomic level. After that, theoretical physicists are still completely clueless as to “how” atoms actually “move” through “space”, and especially, at the Planck scale. Some assume that an atom simply “disappears” from one Planck unit of space and then reappears in another Planck unit of space as it is set in motion.
On another level of reality, this is what happens:
Your brain actually sends a vibration, your thought, your intention, (the brain emits an electric signal) which is instantaneously picked up by the ocean of energy which it is made of and which everything is made of. The ocean of energy then commands the photon “layer” to update the hologram of photons of the entire Universe to reflect the “change” you have made to the “Matrix” via your intentions, your thoughts, checking whether it is compatible or whether it interferes with the “vibrations” (intentions, thoughts) of other brains. If there is a “consensus”, it updates the photon layer, which then updates the quark layer, which updates the atom layer, which updates the molecules layer, which updates the cells layer, which updates the muscles layer, which makes your finger move, and sends a signal upward into your brain through the nervous system to make sure that your brain has updated it’s perception of reality and your brain can then “hallucinate” or simulate what happens between two points in time: one when your finger was in one place, and one where your finger is in another place, and “fill in the logical gap” by seeing your finger moving “forward” when in fact, it has instantly “teleported” or materialized itself in the future. You can thus describe our reality as being a collective hallucination produced by billions and billions of brains which send out their “intentions” of what they want the next “frame” of reality to look like into an infinite ocean of pure energy which can be “molded” into any shape or form.
Under this theoretical model of the Universe, there IS free will, but it is impossible to observe because the observer is within the experiment and cannot “view” the experiment from the outside.
Think also, deeply, about this notion: consciousness is hesitation. If there is no free will, then there could not be hesitation. But the mere fact of experiencing hesitation is proof that things are not working like clockwork. If your brain would take decisions like a neural network, then even if a decision is 50.000000001% more “likely” to be the “right” thing to do, based on the interactions between all your neurons and connections in your brain, then there still wouldn’t be hesitation. You would just DO it or be conscious of taking that decision. For a computer, there is no difference in taking an action with 100% certainty, or 50.000001% certainty. In the end, it translates this information to a 1 or 0, a “yes” or “no”, a “do” or “not do”, a binary option.
I hope you will find these ideas helpful/useful.
Sincerely,
Marma
