Say something happens, like you “decide” to punish yourself for something, you decide to go through pain and trauma. While doing this you think you are doing it, consciously and deliberately, lets say very less amount of blood passes through the heart and the mind without you knowing that there is. Possibly, If the number of past variables that will account for you doing that thing are more, the event will become more reasonable, hence, we assume, in the “scheme” of larger things, this particular event that happened was in your control- you may have decided not to go through the pain, had you decided otherwise, gained access (in control?) to more thoughts that would have lead you not to go through the events.

Now say you’re leading a near-perfect healthy life, suddenly you come to know that you’ve got cancer, there’s nothing you could have done really. Science can’t tell when and how your body produces cancerous cells. We attribute this rather unexpected event to a unknown source (god, know-all, uncertainty), we say well, there are few things which are out of control, we cannot fight them, fair enough. Somewhere else I had raised few points on why freewill doesn’t exist, since that time, my perspectives have had inputs. What i tried to say there was how can the ultimate source of event be “freedom”, when the sources itself are just present and are a function of some state in the surrounding, and those outside factors cannot be determined all the time.

Why we think that something is out of control is because we cannot trace back to the ultimate source. The collection of all these causal factors, if independently don’t seem to be decisive in causal effect, then we might assume that there is something extra, whether it is freewill, or it is something “extra”, we cannot really conclude. In the first example, say you decide to cut your hands because something has made you reach a conclusion that you should not live anymore, you could stay out of that, at that time, that will be your choice, but what events lead to the this present scenario where you are to make such a decision now may or may not be in control, say you’re doing this because your close friend is no more. This kind of analysis calls for confusion, there are all these static factors plus the dynamics, which will have their impact on the effect or final outcome.

This concept can work differently, for different people, at different times. When we try to decide for ourselves about whether a decision was born out of “yoursystem”, we may forget or just overlook few parts of the system which might have caused us to take that decision. When we see people talk about things like fate or actions in discussions that surround morality or responsibilities, we never see them being categorical and hear them say- “Its all god”, or “we didn’t do well with what we had”, even though people might say it, we know that it is always a combination that we always refer to. People always think there are few things which we can take in control and there are few which we cannot.

May be, again, if big-bang is moving everything  forward, may be the small planets inside the “whole”  do have things which can have control systems of its own. Ha, yeah, i know, so suddenly one day, out of nowhere, we will smack a meteoroid, and it will be all over.
May be, but what about inside planet earth, is it all scripted, has the future been already decided without knowing the past at all?

Either there is no freewill, or freewill doesn’t need to be originating out of a single ultimate source, does it need to? If it is not originating from a single source and yet is freewill, isn’t it confusing? Simpler, Lets say we have some sensations, that we can do something, there are n possible actions, and we are not sure at that point of time, and take a decision based on our beliefs, wants, etc etc. All the other past variables have contributed without you knowing it, doesn’t mean there are some mysterious factors, it simply means they cannot be written down on a piece of paper if we decide to traceback.

You will either read this or say, why should we think about all these things? That’s philosophy, but whatever you will do, will be choosing a less confused sensation, why not, we call it freewill!!