Freewill? (Factors for human will and action)

Freewill. What is free will? "Free will is the ability to choose between different possible courses of action"Free will(wikipidia)

" “FreeWill” is a philosophical term of art for a particular sort of capacity of rational agents to choose a course of action from among various alternatives." Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy

Is there such a thing as freewill?

This question has been and is still being debated by philosophers and other fields of study. It is a topic that is being debated for more than two melenia.

Outside of the field of philosophy, though opposed by incompatibilists, one of the main fields that maybe involved in this topic is quantum physics on whether or not particles have deterministic nature.

Though it may be just a hypothesis, the following tries to elaborate the writer's idea and self theory on how human choice and action is made.

The following ideas are in opposition to the idea of free will.

1) Freewill, the idea itself denotes freedom to will.

So,  what is freedom? There are many definitions but lets take the one that would make sense in this situation. Freedom:- exemption from external control, interference, regulation, etc. dictionary.com.

So to have freewill, one must have exemption from all those listed above when choosing.

1.1) But it is evident that unless one is without motive and feeling, or void of any sense and emotion, it is impossible to be totally free of any influence for any action for every living thing is burdened with motive, sense and character and is doomed to be influenced by atleast one thing when choosing or acting.

1.2) Everything in this universe behaves according to the laws of the universe. Therefore it is the laws of the universe that forces it to act in everyway that it does. We are part of the universe.

2) There are different forces in contributing to the choice or action a person may make or do.

I) The person
II) Feelings
III) Chance or law of nature
IV) conviction(reasoning and logic included)
V) Ego
VI) Chatacteristics like IQ and resistance

2.1) The person

Who is the person? The person is a different entity to feelings emotions thoughts, convictions and ego

2.1.1) The person is the reciever and interpretor of all senses, feelings, emotions, desires and convictions.

2.1.3) The person is also the responder or one who responds to different pressures of senses and feelings. The person intakes those pressures and it acts upon them accordingly.

2.1.4) Q) Why the person or what is the use of the person?

2.1.4.1) To recieve and interpret senses, feelings, emotions and the like

2.1.4.2) To reason and think

2.1.4.2.1) Reasoning and thinking helps in

2.1.4.2.1.1) Understanding a situation better so to make a better decision.

2.1.4.3) To act or respond. The person is the actor and responds to pressures of feelings in accordance to the pressures and person's nature or inclination.

2.2) Feelings:-

To feel:- "to be aware of (something that affects you physically) i.word.com

But here since we are talking about mental state we would include all that affect the mental state and say "To be aware of (something that affects you phisicaly, mentaly, emotionaly and in whichever way that your mental state can be affected in) "

2.2.1) Feelings are natural pressures that affect the person, and the person's response to take action or to choose.

There generaly are

I) Feelings from our sense organs
II) Feelings of the mind(Emotions, sentiment and desire) are examples.

I) Feelings from our sense organs are concrete and not manipulatable naturaly.

II) Feelings of the mind like emotion, sentiment and desire can many a times be controlled or inhanced by another thought or conviction.

2.3) Chance

"An accidental or unpredictable event." thefreedictionary.com

2.3.1) Whether chance plays a role in a person's action and choice is uncertain. But even if it does, the tottality of a person's action or choice is not determined by chance.

2.4) Convictions:-

Conviction:- "a fixed or firm belief" source

Convictions are beliefs that the person believes are concrete.
Some convictions come naturally while some through reasoning and logic.

2.4.1) Reasoning

Reasoning:- "the process of forming conclusions, judgments, or inferences from facts or premises." dictionary.com

- The act of reasoning is action of the person as a response to feeling of uncertainity, curiousity or other feelings that may lead to such action.

Usualy Its an act for better understanding of things

After the better understanding, our feeling and inclination can take over based on the conclusions to make a choice or decision.

Reasoning leads to convinctions

2.5) Ego:- "your consciousness of your own identity" vocabulary.com

The ego is the self image that the person has of the self.

    Putting all the above in mind

2.6) Just as a person has physical characteristics, the person has mental characterstics  which are natural.

It is to be noted that these characteristics are also feelings.

They are natural tendancies or feelings of the person that they themselves contribute in making the person feel and respond to different situations in a certain manner.

These characteristics include

2.6.1) Inclination:-  Implies what force that plays a role in decision making, naturaly gravitates a person and to what extent.

These imply the likes and dislikes of the person
Meaning the extent at which the person is pulled towards either a feeling, conviction, ego or any force that affect the person during situation y at a mental state of z.

This naturally varies from person to person as inclinations varry from person to person.

2.6.2) Resistance of the person(Weight)

Resistance of the person(weight)
implies the person's inclination to stick to something the person already believes in or stick to the state that the person already is in.


2.6.2.1) One of the characteristics of the resistance of the person is resistance to change.

For example, those who are naturaly more resistant to change are less likely to go along new ideas as opposed to those who are naturaly less resistant to change and are less prone to new  pulls

Also those who are naturally more resistant to change are less likely to move from their convictions and get pulled by other feelings easily.

2.6.2.1.1) Being more change resistent gives the person more resistance towards any pull from the state that the person is already in

2.6.2.1.2) Being more change resistant gives the person more resistance towards any pull that may try to drift the person from the convictions that the person has already set.

2.6.2.2) Resistance or weight can also increase or decrease in different situations via knowledge, understanding and convictions. Because if the person can access reasons(forces)(as reasons are influencial factors in decision making) that can repell certain pull or push, the person would have added resistance(weight). The same goes the other way around.

2.6.3) IQ of the person.

IQ of the person plays a great role in determining the choice one makes

Because

2.6.3.1) A person with higher IQ may know better or more options and thus may choose accordingly.

2.6.3.2) A person with a higher IQ can add or decrease resistance according to desire as a higher IQ is a lot likely to figure out how.

So

3) The person being reciever, interpreter and responder just as everything else in the universe does, the person only recieves pressures, interprets it according to interpreting capacity and responds according to magnitude of pressure, direction of pressure, and resistance to the push or pull(weight).

Meaning to say if a choice of A and B is presented towards the person, what would determine the choice is

I) The person

II) The magnitude of pull A and B have separately on the person towards them.

III) Resistance(weight) of the person.

Resistence plays a big role because

Eg

III.I) If the person is in state where he constantly chooses A over C or D for a long time and a choice of A and B is presented, a person with more resistence to change is more likely choose A as opposed to a person who is not as change resistent.

III.II) If a person is given a choice of A and B and if the person has convinced self not to take choice B but the natural urge and feeling pushes the self to taking choice B. In this case the resistance(weight) of the person matters a lot in how easily the person falls for new ideas and takes the choice of the desires instead of convictions. Resistance here helps in sticking to convictions and not easily allowing self to be taken by other forces.


Resistance works the same way in different situations as well.


So what the above states is

-  Factors that determine a person's will are the person, inclination(feelings, included), convictions, IQ, and resistance(natural and added)

-  Natural tendencies of a person including feelings can be natural characters of the person. 

- The person also can have resistance(weight) as a character.

- Resistance can be added to and subtracted from via reasoning conviction.

In short it can be said that the factor that determines a person's choice is "what influential force(in deciding and acting) gravitates the person to an extent x in situation y at mental state z."

  

  

  

  

        

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