18 November 2017

Notes - free will / don't erase


       Saturday afternoon. You are waiting for Carol at Kroger's on Mason-Montgomery Road. An hour ago the temperature was sixty-five, now it's down to sixty-one and will continue dropping. The winds are picking up. There will be gusts into the high forties. The lot is packed with cars, fortunately you found an open handicap spot right by the north door. You don't have anything on your mind that you can see but are suddenly wondering how thought (waves) relate to free will in that if one has a thought unconsciously, how does one prepare consciously to react to it? - Amorella

       1418 hours. The Quora commentary yesterday focused on a theoretical 'tachyon murder' and how if the bullet was going faster than light then the murderer would have no choice but to pull the trigger, i.e. if the bullet had left the barrel the person would not have free will to change his mind. If the person still has a choice to pull the trigger or not there would be a contradiction as to outcome. What about a thought rather than a bullet. Moving a thought from unconscious thought to conscious is not a matter of free will, so the free will exists only when the person is conscious of it. For instance, you are driving along and there is no sign of danger. Suddenly you have a slight urge to stop for no apparent reason. As there is no apparent observable reason you move on only to find are broadsided out of nowhere. Whether you survive or not is not the point, the point is you had no reasonable choice but to drive on. So, you intuitively had free will but as it was not fully understood consciously. Now, if your intuition was strong enough and you slowed down it might have affected the outcome, perhaps you might not have been hurt so bad, or you might have just survived, this may or may not have been a better personal outcome. The best outcome would be that the car or truck roared through just before arrived at the scene. You then survived a close call. These sort of events happen all the time. We know this because people talk about them. Then, if it was a  bad outcome was it an innocent enough accident on the victim's part or was it fate?

       You struggled a bit to get your concept out without my help. You don't feel it is well written though as it was done entirely from free will. What about when I intervene through your unconsciousness? Where's the free will it what is written not in the concept behind it? - Amorella

       1444 hours. That's easy to answer, I have always given you the right (free will) to take over if it is to make my concepts better understood through writing. - rho

       Once home and after a bit of relaxation, you drove to Papa John's to pick up your usual pizza which was excellent as always. You finished the season of "Blacklist" (which ended in a surprise) and you both decided not to continue "Blind Spot" after viewing the first three episodes of this season. - Amorella

       1840 hours. It lost its original direction, trying to rebuild with basically the two major characters now in a love interest is not enough. It is not the actors though, it is the plot -- too diverse. Even "Designated Survivor" is not as good as the first season. We still watch "Blacklist" straight through but "Blind Spot" has had too many spots where you could glance down at the paper or some other distraction along the way. "The Good Doctor" is still the best of the season. We still like "Madam Secretary", "Blue Bloods", and "NCIS". "NCIS.LA" is a little iffy this year. We don't like the new characters so much. I'm putting this down in case I forget what was on. Maybe we have been watching too many shows, plus we are getting older and more discrimination when it comes to media entertainment. Lord knows it's impossible to stay original in terms of my own creative energy let alone spending time criticizing others for their efforts.

       Don't erase. Thoughts are what they are. Some decades ago you thought it would be neat if someone invented a machine that would record all of a person's thoughts. The blog is the next to best thing since if someone had built such a machine you would have  been right up there ready to volunteer to have all of your thoughts read and time recorded, both conscious and unconscious thoughts. Why? Because all the thoughts would be human thoughts therefore not that embarrassing as long as they were honest in time and context. Post. - Amorella

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