Free Will in a Deterministic Universe

An object that is thrown will always trace a parabola, because there are laws that govern matter. The planets will always maintain their orbit, because they follow deterministic laws of matter. We can predict astronomical events with precision in the macro world. But if everything were deterministic, there could be no consciousness with free will. Yet consciousness possesses inalienable freedom; otherwise, it would not be consciousness. Will, decision, and choice are principal parts of what we define as conscious. But how could we be conscious on a plane endowed with deterministic laws?

The only way for free will to exist in a deterministic system is for there to be apparently random mechanisms with which a conscious principle is able to interact, and thus be able to generate transformations in the deterministic system. The principle of uncertainty in quantum physics places us before a point of randomness, of intrinsic uncertainty, on the plane of existence that is apparently deterministic—the material plane.

Somewhere within matter, what governs the movement of particles cannot be laws, but rather a conscious principle. Quantum mechanics already shows us that the observer is capable of collapsing the wave-particle function into subatomic particles.

This not only demonstrates the factuality of free will, the mind’s capacity to interfere with matter, the independence of consciousness from matter, the immortality of the soul, and the existence of life after death, but also shows us the mechanism by which we will create equipment to gain access to immaterial planes.

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