Is Free Will an Illusion? A Critical Examination

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Hello dear readers, welcome once again to my blog.

The topic I am going to discuss today is free will.

I will start from the concept of free will that artificial intelligence provides us, and from there, I will begin the entire discourse of my blog.

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Given the previous image, we will then analyze each of the aspects.

They talk about autonomy, and this is, for example, the decision I can make to eat a chocolate ice cream simply because I feel like eating that chocolate ice cream.

I am being autonomous; it is something I desire to do, and I am doing it, and it is my free will.

But here we move to the second point, which is moral responsibility. People can easily come up to me and say, "Hey, you're eating a chocolate ice cream, you're going to get fat."

This morally makes me feel uncomfortable because they are making a moral judgment about my decision to eat a chocolate ice cream, and there again, free will comes into question.

This moral responsibility leads us to something much deeper, which are philosophical debates.

For example, artificial intelligence proposes determinism versus free will, and according to what it tells us, I could have eaten that ice cream simply because my body had a need for chocolate sugar.

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I felt that my body, my organism, needed to absorb chocolate, and thus my actions, my free will, were influenced by that determinism.

Or it could have been that it was very hot, I was very hot, and I simply felt like eating a chocolate ice cream. It was what I had closest at hand, and I ate the chocolate ice cream.

So, was it really because of the heat or was it because of the free will I was exercising at that moment?

Here we move to compatibilism because it could have been that due to determinism, I decided to align myself with my desire to eat chocolate, and there lies the cause.

This moral philosophical debate is compatible precisely with my biological need and desire, with the environmental problem.

So, there is causality and compatibilism between the environmental problem and my need to ingest chocolate.

We then move to libertarianism, where I could say that God, or a metaphysical thing like universal energy, transmitted the message to me that I should eat a chocolate ice cream, which is quite curious but is one of the many possibilities of free will.

Taking artificial intelligence as a model, this brings us an extremely interesting debate.

We move to the next point, which is science and neuroscience.

It could easily be that I have a lack of sugar, as I mentioned earlier, in my body, and my brain sends signals that I need to ingest chocolate to replace the enzymes that my organism is not generating.

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So, this is really scientific; it is not free will but simply an organic need that my body, my brain, is sending a signal that it needs that supplement, that it needs a chocolate ice cream to keep going.

Finally, we have another aspect that is very interesting and which creates the strongest debates in this sense, which is the religious aspect.

We could say, for example, that my religion, whatever it may be, if I had one, of course, says that among its commandments, I should not eat chocolate, and I am eating chocolate.

In that case, I would be violating one of the commandments of my religion and would become a sinner or earn hell for having violated this commandment according to my religion.

So, obviously, in this sense, I would be restricting my free will, that is, I would be restricting my free will because, due to religious aspects, because of this commandment, I should not have eaten chocolate, and now I am going to hell for having done so.

Therefore, it is important to differentiate free will from freedom because freedom is based on movement, expression, and the ability to speak, while free will is more like the internal part of autonomously following internally to do things.

I personally do not believe in free will but rather in the rational process and free thinking.

Through this critical sense, we will be able to decide whether we are going to eat chocolate or not and all the implications that this may or may not bring.

Basically, I believe that free will is an invention of humanity to control people through religion, traditions, and beliefs, assuming that they are being deceived to follow or comply with certain patterns of specific religions, traditions, or beliefs.