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====== Free Will ======

Kriyananda:  You have free will; you have never used it.

Free will lies on the causal plane.

To the extent you identify with the skin bag walking around on this planet, you have no free will.

To the extent you identify with the totality of all that is and all that isn't, maybe there is some wiggle room.

Jordan Peterson:

Robert Sapolsky:

Leo Tolstoy (the last two paragraphs of //War and Peace//): 

As with astronomy the difficulty of recognizing the motion of the earth lay in abandoning the immediate sensation of the earth’s fixity and of the motion of the planets, so in history the difficulty of recognizing the subjection of personality to the laws of space, time, and cause lies in renouncing the direct feeling of the independence of one’s own personality. But as in astronomy the new view said: “It is true that we do not feel the movement of the earth, but by admitting its immobility we arrive at absurdity, while by admitting its motion (which we do not feel) we arrive at laws,” so also in history the new view says: “It is true that we are not conscious of our dependence, but by admitting our free will we arrive at absurdity, while by admitting our dependence on the external world, on time, and on cause, we arrive at laws.”

In the first case it was necessary to renounce the consciousness of an unreal immobility in space and to recognize a motion we did not feel; in the present case it is similarly necessary to renounce a freedom that does not exist, and to recognize a dependence of which we are not conscious.

No free will
Deterministic laws of nature
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