[Philosophy] Do we have control over our own lives?

[bruh3610]

Does free will even exist? We might think we are deciding for ourselves, sometimes, yet we are completely oblivious to the fact that our decisions are shaped by our environment.
Every action leads to a consequence, like a chain of dominoes. Time is the chain. Each domino is an event in the past, the knocking over of each domino can be represented as time. Think about it. You decided to eat rice for lunch today. Why? Did you decide for yourself? Or did sandwich your dog ate earlier contribute to your choice? Do you really believe in god, or were you raised in a Christian family which made you accept Gods presence automatically? Do you really enjoy Chinese food, or did growing up in China contribute to this?
In the end, we are only observers, watching our lives progress, our actions enslaved to our environment as well as events in the past

@Ritalincel Thoughts?

 

[sloopnoob]

Space and time exists because things have mass and thus limited velocity. Something like light, a photon has no mass according to it's own point of view it's speed is limitless and its whole life is all over in a moment from its point of view, we are able to see light because time is relative everything that moves through space moves through time. Now imagine a triangle and now imagine a similar triangle but bigger if you shoot a light particle from one side to another on each of the triangle, according to the light particle it takes the same time to reach the end in both cases distance loses all meaning when no mass exists in the universe small is big, big is small thus when the universe ends there is nothing with mass so no space either so how do you differentiate the end of universe from the beginning? There is no mass in the beginning and no space either it's as if end of universe is the start of universe. We are bound in an infinite loop of end and starts so we will be born again and again everytime a universe begins who is to say we have free will if its destined to end the same way and start the same way each time

 

[Deleted member 5522]

Everything is determinism. You could predict everything that will ever happen in theory.

Free will = fake news

 

[bruh3610]

Space and time exists because things have mass and thus limited velocity. Something like light, a photon has no mass according to it's own point of view it's speed is limitless and its whole life is all over in a moment from its point of view, we are able to see light because time is relative everything that moves through space moves through time. Now imagine a triangle and now imagine a similar triangle but bigger if you shoot a light particle from one side to another on each of the triangle, according to the light particle it takes the same time to reach the end in both cases distance loses all meaning when no mass exists in the universe small is big, big is small thus when the universe ends there is nothing with mass so no space either so how do you differentiate the end of universe from the beginning? There is no mass in the beginning and no space either it's as if end of universe is the start of universe. We are bound in an infinite loop of end and starts so we will be born again and again everytime a universe begins who is to say we have free will if its destined to end the same way and start the same way each time

Suifuel

 

[Ritalincel]

XD

 

[Tony]