Free will is not my favorite tool. I am very satisfied with our self-awareness and our thinking. But let’s make a rational point for free will. First we don’t really know what we want. Second, our brain calculates, but it does not always calculate so well because it is conditioned by the environment and thermodynamics, like any computer which is not only logical, it’s a thermal machine, in fact when it is very hot, or the battery is low, the computer doesn’t work very well. And so our brain. So we struggle to find what we really want and this struggle to find out what we want is free will. Thinking correctly is not simple and is not only logical but also empirical (as in mathematics natural numbers derive from experience) and of course moral because we interact with other people and animals. In this way we change the future which is not multiple, but not determined. There are no multiple possible futures, but a future paved by case and our actions. And Hell is notoriously paved with the best of intentions, for example the best of all intentions is to think that everything is deterministic, but perhaps that’s not the case in reality. However, reductionism is very useful for determining what is not computable. Others think it differently. Anyway, I think I think so for my “free will”- I don’t want to think I’m really “necessary” to fix the hell!
Filippo Boatti
October 15, 2020