[g0pher]

Great thread

"Free will" is a philosophical/religious concept while "choice" is the act of picking one out of two (or more) alternatives.

For instance: You need to eat, and you can choose what to eat, but hunger, instinct, socio-economic class, cultural heritage and geographical surroundings, etc. still dictate your choice unfreely.

When examining free will, we have to look at whether you made the choice independent of any external influence, at the specific time when you made the choice.

Free Will do not exists, in a way. Theory is this, this world is made up of endless possibilities, or more scientifically, layers of space, when you make a choice, any choice, you choose, and the one you choose will become the future, while the one you denied will not, vice versa. Meaning that time itself is like a movie, made up of different frames which have millions of substitutes for each other, in other words, there will be a different world for every different choice you make. If you look at it widely enough, we're still constrained by the laws of the world as things that do not exist will not even be thought of.

Free will being that we have control over our faculities to reason, but not our desires and motivations. Such as Aristotle and Aquinas suggest that no man can choose his end or the nature of his being, rather he can accept it or reject it, Yet even the rejection of his nature subsists in a false sense of fulfilling it. And thus there is no true freedom to deny his nature, unless he decieves himself.