[everymansmedium]

Hello MJA:
I base my thoughts on the concept of a probability priority loop as the basis for intelligent thought. What that means is that when a person thinks, be it consciously or otherwise. The action is the result of the determination of a series of logical probabilities that are used to produce a set of priorities that determine our actions. I see the primary motivation as (the drive to survive) = continue.

I see free will as the freedom to calculate how best to fulfill that which is the result of the primary motivation and the freedom to act upon that priority that is indicated by the calculation. It is also the freedom to do this calculation using the data of your own choosing.

The idea of free will is a concept that came as the result of a book of religion. It however did indicate a problem as to the primary idea of cause and effect. My thought was quite a simple one. That to determine if we could see awareness of self as being an example of being apparent. And if we could see the need of motivation as being a kindred to a constant, as the only motivation that I know of is continue. If these are true then it is possible to see a being as a prime mover in the same way that we see a force as a prime mover. Then the problem generated by the idea of free will becomes a moot point that can again be retired back to the book of religion from where it came.

This is the point that is difficult to handle as this gives a completely different viewpoint of a being. It now becomes as only a force was, in that it can be the origin of a chain of events. This will in effect put an unknown variable into every calculation that attempts to determine the path of our existence medium.
This makes everything unknowable because of the effects of many unknown beings.

However if this is the case we should at least be aware of what we are dealing with. There is something that is preventing us from finding the truth. There is life all around us yet we have never been able to create same from a true beginning. We say it could happen at random yet we still can not do so of our own purpose, with the backing of all the knowledge we have. Is there something wrong with this thought?
It seems to me to generate a need for the kind of faith that they ask of any other religion.
John.