Free Will Or Fate, Or Both?
Free Will is the capacity for agents to choose between different possible courses of action unimpeded, is closely linked to the concepts of moral responsibility, praise, guilt, sin, and other judgments which apply only to actions that are freely chosen.
Fate the power that some people believe controls everything that happens.
I read this in an article,
According to the free will argument, arguably every decision is vital to the creation of the universe every day. With each decision made, an infinite number of doors open, and an infinite number of doors close. This is consistent with the theory of multiple realities or world lines, in which diverging possibilities are carried out according to ever-expanding, individual blueprints for life.
Every person wants to do things on their own and wants to have the freedom or at least would like to have a certain choice which they can choose for themselves, it feels the brain seems to be decided before the mind knows about it. If this is indeed true, the choices we think we are making, expressions of our freedom, are being made subconsciously, without our explicit control. Could it really be that we are so pre convinced with certain ideas which are not letting us move forward?
A popular argument against free will goes like this: imagine that in the future scientists will be able to map and decode all your mental states with arbitrary precision. They could then predict what you will do before you are aware of your choice. If this situation were ever to be possible — and it seems to me that it couldn’t be in many different ways — free will would presumably be in trouble. But of course, such abstraction is mere fantasy: machines can’t measure all our mental states in rapid succession if we don’t even know how these states emerge. Any measurement that needs to track billions of neurons and trillions of synapses in time is far-fetched.
Are people truly responsible for their actions? This question has puzzled humanity throughout history. Over the centuries, people have pondered the influence of divine or diabolical power, environment, genetics, even entertainment, as determining how free any individual is in making moral choices. The ancient Greeks acknowledged the role of Fate as a reality outside the individual that shaped and determined human life. In modern times, the concept of fate has developed the misty halo of romantic destiny, which is how fate is viewed in The Notebook.
These are two examples I came across while reading an article,
Fate vs. Destiny
Example 1
Fate
Your parents don’t show you love, and you grow up with the feeling that you’re unworthy, and you carry a deep-seated sadness in you.
As a result, you subconsciously repeat the same pattern — your relationships fail, you don’t trust others, you don’t ask for a pay raise, etc.
Destiny
When you turn the primary setting — the unloving parents — to destiny, you stop blaming your parents.
You realize that you chose this experience to make you stronger.
You realize that there is enough love that is independent of one particular source (your parents).
This experience also helps you to become a more compassionate person.
You learn how to create loving bonds with others and yourself.
Fate vs. Destiny,
Example 2
Fate
Let’s say that you meet a person of your dreams.
They are perfect, and you experience love as never before.
Then something happens, and they leave.
Your heart is hurting so much that you give up on life.
Because of this experience, you guard your heart safely under thousands of locks so that you prevent potential future pain.
Destiny
The person who flips the fate to destiny acknowledges the pain and doesn’t try to suppress it.
Instead, they let their heart stay wide open and allow the pain to transform them.
Such a person may use the heartbreak as the invitation to the underworld — to the land of our shadows and fears — and then come back to the light stronger than ever before.
The question of free will or Fate is not simply a black-and-white or yes-no kind of question, but one that embraces the full complexity of what it means to be human. What it means is nothing but taking ownership of what you are doing.
No matter what it is you are leading your life and you are responsible for it. That's what the ownership is all about that how much you are ready to take it in and owning it up in a way that you decide for yourself. What you need exactly. Somehow we feel it is easier for us to blame other things when things are not working out for us.
There Is No Conflict
There is no conflict between Fate or Free Will. If we look at how they interfere from a higher consciousness, we see that they beautifully align with each other. From a higher perspective, every potentiality already exists.
