Yes. All that "free will debate" doesn't really make any sense. Because "Free will" is not something we have or not but something we ARE. Even if you think you don't have free will, you ARE it. Even if you think you live in a deterministic prison, you also ARE the prison in itself. Is a prison free or not ? Is the very place where you ARE, the very place that alows your existence, free or not ? Is "suchness" free or not ? The answer should be evident.
Free will is like colors red or blue—it doesn't exist on its own but is a creation of our imagination. Just as colors provide a tangible yet constructed way to interpret the world, so does the concept of free will. This notion steps away from conventional ideas, presenting a framework that is both illusory and tangible. It's a reflection on the way we perceive our agency and choices, much like how colors influence our perception of reality.
Picture's infos : The famous Self-Portrait by Ernst Mach. 1886.
"This unique self-portrait, also known as "view from the left eye", is the creation of Austrian physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach, noted for his contributions to physics such as the Mach number (which relates an object's speed to the speed of sound) and the study of shock waves. The sketch appears in Mach's The Analysis of Sensations, first published in German in 1886 as Beiträge zur Analyse der Empfindungen, and is used to illustrate his ideas about self-perception.
He writes : "The considerations just advanced, expressed as they have been in an abstract form, will gain in strength and vividness if we consider the concrete facts from which they flow. Thus, I lie upon my sofa. If I close my right eye, the picture represented in the accompanying cut is presented to my left eye. In a frame formed by the ridge of my eyebrow, by my nose, and by my moustache, appears a part of my body, so far as visible, with its environment. My body differs from other human bodies beyond the fact that every intense motor idea is immediately expressed by a movement of it, and that, if it is touched, more striking changes are determined than if other bodies are touched by the circumstance, that it is only seen piecemeal, and, especially, is seen without a head. If I observe an element A within my field of vision, and investigate its connexion with another element B within the same field, I step out of the domain of physics into that of physiology or psychology, provided B, to use the apposite expression of a friend of mine made upon seeing this drawing, passes through my skin. Reflexions like that for the field of vision may be made with regard to the province of touch and the perceptual domains of the other senses."
He gives a little more information on the origins of the image in a footnote:
"It was about 1870 that the idea of this drawing was suggested to me by an amusing chance. A certain Mr L., now long dead, whose many eccentricities were redeemed by his truly amiable character, compelled me to read one of C. F. Krause's writings, in which the following occurs:
"Problem : To carry out the self-inspection of the Ego.
Solution : It is carried out immediately."
In order to illustrate in a humorous manner this philosophical "much ado about nothing," and at the same time to shew how the self-inspection of the Ego could be really "carried out," I embarked on the above drawing. Mr L.'s society was most instructive and stimulating to me, owing to the naivety with which he gave utterance to philosophical notions that are apt to be carefully passed over in silence or involved in obscurity."
According to John Michael Krois the "Mr. L" in question is Mach's colleague at Prague University, Prof. Hermann von Leonhardi, son-in-law of the Kaul Christian Friedrich Krause mentioned. Krois also tells us that this original drawing sketched in 1870 in fact differed from the woodblock of 16 years later — the right arm with pencil is absent, with a left arm instead brandishing a cigarette (which has found its way to the mouth in the 1886 image), and a steaming cup of Viennese coffee sits on a small table. "
If all is predestined, then the concept of 'I' is an illusion; we are inseparable from the entirety of existence. This holistic view suggests that every event, choice, or action is predetermined not just by past events, but by the entire structure of the universe. Every individual decision, action, or thought is intertwined in a vast web of causality, harmonized with the broader universe. In this sense, while determinism traditionally posits that every event is a result of preceding events, when viewed through the lens of oneness, it underscores that our perceived choices are simultaneously a reflection of the cosmos and an integral part of its predetermined flow
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Yes. All that "free will debate" doesn't really make any sense. Because "Free will" is not something we have or not but something we ARE. Even if you think you don't have free will, you ARE it. Even if you think you live in a deterministic prison, you also ARE the prison in itself. Is a prison free or not ? Is the very place where you ARE, the very place that alows your existence, free or not ? Is "suchness" free or not ? The answer should be evident.
Free will is like colors red or blue—it doesn't exist on its own but is a creation of our imagination. Just as colors provide a tangible yet constructed way to interpret the world, so does the concept of free will. This notion steps away from conventional ideas, presenting a framework that is both illusory and tangible. It's a reflection on the way we perceive our agency and choices, much like how colors influence our perception of reality.
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Picture's infos : The famous Self-Portrait by Ernst Mach. 1886.
"This unique self-portrait, also known as "view from the left eye", is the creation of Austrian physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach, noted for his contributions to physics such as the Mach number (which relates an object's speed to the speed of sound) and the study of shock waves. The sketch appears in Mach's The Analysis of Sensations, first published in German in 1886 as Beiträge zur Analyse der Empfindungen, and is used to illustrate his ideas about self-perception.
He writes : "The considerations just advanced, expressed as they have been in an abstract form, will gain in strength and vividness if we consider the concrete facts from which they flow. Thus, I lie upon my sofa. If I close my right eye, the picture represented in the accompanying cut is presented to my left eye. In a frame formed by the ridge of my eyebrow, by my nose, and by my moustache, appears a part of my body, so far as visible, with its environment. My body differs from other human bodies beyond the fact that every intense motor idea is immediately expressed by a movement of it, and that, if it is touched, more striking changes are determined than if other bodies are touched by the circumstance, that it is only seen piecemeal, and, especially, is seen without a head. If I observe an element A within my field of vision, and investigate its connexion with another element B within the same field, I step out of the domain of physics into that of physiology or psychology, provided B, to use the apposite expression of a friend of mine made upon seeing this drawing, passes through my skin. Reflexions like that for the field of vision may be made with regard to the province of touch and the perceptual domains of the other senses."
He gives a little more information on the origins of the image in a footnote:
"It was about 1870 that the idea of this drawing was suggested to me by an amusing chance. A certain Mr L., now long dead, whose many eccentricities were redeemed by his truly amiable character, compelled me to read one of C. F. Krause's writings, in which the following occurs:
"Problem : To carry out the self-inspection of the Ego.
Solution : It is carried out immediately."
In order to illustrate in a humorous manner this philosophical "much ado about nothing," and at the same time to shew how the self-inspection of the Ego could be really "carried out," I embarked on the above drawing. Mr L.'s society was most instructive and stimulating to me, owing to the naivety with which he gave utterance to philosophical notions that are apt to be carefully passed over in silence or involved in obscurity."
According to John Michael Krois the "Mr. L" in question is Mach's colleague at Prague University, Prof. Hermann von Leonhardi, son-in-law of the Kaul Christian Friedrich Krause mentioned. Krois also tells us that this original drawing sketched in 1870 in fact differed from the woodblock of 16 years later — the right arm with pencil is absent, with a left arm instead brandishing a cigarette (which has found its way to the mouth in the 1886 image), and a steaming cup of Viennese coffee sits on a small table. "
(infos found here : https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/self-portrait-by-ernst-mach-1886/ )
If all is predestined, then the concept of 'I' is an illusion; we are inseparable from the entirety of existence. This holistic view suggests that every event, choice, or action is predetermined not just by past events, but by the entire structure of the universe. Every individual decision, action, or thought is intertwined in a vast web of causality, harmonized with the broader universe. In this sense, while determinism traditionally posits that every event is a result of preceding events, when viewed through the lens of oneness, it underscores that our perceived choices are simultaneously a reflection of the cosmos and an integral part of its predetermined flow