Does Free Will Exist Navin Goyal

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Dear Navin,

 

I do not enter into such metaphysical questions. All I feel is that

I am just a vehicle carrying out the will of God.

 

Sincerely,

 

Priya

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

, " Navin Goyal "

<goyalnavin wrote:

>

> Greetings,

>

> This is just my imagination and my thoughts. Please do correct me

and add to

> this thought where ever you think necessary.

> I will love to hear from you and your view on this. This will help

me in

> thinking better and in my development.

>

> Warm regards

> Navin Goyal

>

>

> Does Free Will Exist ?

>

> I have been troubled with this concept of free will for over a

year now. I

> have been thinking, reading and consulting, but I never found

anything

> satisfying. Then one day, doing nothing, I started to play a

classic game

> " Minesweeper " . The expert level is a little tough, where I have

to unearth

> 100 bombs. I tried at least 100 times before I could actually

solve it one

> day.

>

> Now the funny part. There were many time when I use to be stuck

with 2

> blocks and one bomb to unearth. Mathematically it is impossible to

determine

> the bomb. So I had to try my luck. The probability was 50 % . I

use to

> painstakingly solve the whole puzzle to reach the end, with two

blocks and

> one of them having a bomb, where I had to try my luck. This

happened at

> least 10 times. Now ideally and the law of probability suggests

that I

> should get 5 correct and 5 wrongs. Nothing of this sort happened.

I got only

> one right and 9 wrong.

>

> During all these 10 times, I use to ponder over those 2 blocks and

ask which

> is the bomb to myself and no matter what i did i always selected

to bomb and

> i never completed the puzzle. This got me thinking. ( I am giving

this true

> example to convey my point effectively. The example may be too

> trivial/simple, but it does get the point across effectively)

>

> 1. If I always selected the bomb, then perhaps

unknowingly/subconsciously

> my mind knew the answer. But perhaps the time was not right for me

to solve

> the puzzle. Hence my mind always selected to bomb.

>

> 2. If the above statement is assumed to be true, then the

outcomes/results

> of all our actions are pre decided. Therefore in the maya, we get

the

> feeling of taking a decision and doing an action but the result is

already

> decided and known to the subconscious mind. we are just the doer,

results

> are not in our hand.

>

> 3. In the above puzzle, if you have ever played and noticed it,

that

> everything fits in exactly. Every bomb has to be in its place if

the puzzle

> has to be solved. If we consider this to be a very very simple

version of

> this world, and we compare each block as one human, then we come

to know

> that nothing in this world by chance. Everything has to be in its

place . No

> block can change its place.

>

> So does this mean , that free will does not exists. Now lets look

at the

> metaphysical level. We consider that evey human takes birth in a

particular

> arrangement of planetary position, depending on the " purva sanchit

karm " . So

> we get our personality and our qualities. In a way our planetary

position

> also influence our logic and thinking. Our logic/ thinking decide

all our

> actions. Hence if our logic/thinking is itself not free, how can

our actions

> be completely free.

>

> Just imagine, if 100 babies are locked in a room with one human

and this

> human cannot possibly comprehend or predict each action of each

baby. It

> will be really chaotic in there. Similarly, this world has 6

billion humans.

> If we all had free will and if all could do what they want and if

all the

> results of their actions were not predecided by god, then just

think this

> world would have been extinct long back.

>

> This world is a system, or a puzzle, if I may say so and we are a

part of

> this system. Every thing we do has an effect on this system (

action and

> reaction ). So this is a very complex interconnections of

entities. So

> therefore every thing has to be in its place and every action has

to happen

> at the pre decided time with a pre decided result for this world

to survive.

>

>

> Therefore, I have serious doubts regarding Free Will ?

>