Saturday, May 24, 2008
Freedom
Freedom does not exist.. No thoughts are original.. Whatever crap I am writing is not original.. I think its original.. But this is far from the truth.. My thoughts are not mine.. Infact nothing is in my control.. I am powerless.. Whatever happens, happens for a reason.. I am just a cluster of thoughts which existed before me or are existing as of now.. I am just a response to the happenings around me.. I am an outcome of environment.. My likes and dislikes have been trained.. My feelings are trained.. My instincts - .. Is it trained.. But whatever "instincts" mean, they are not in my control.. Whats right whats wrong if nothing is in my control.. Why am I held responsible for my acts when my acts are not mine in the first place.. I live because I am not dead.. I can not die because "instincts" dont allow me.. Here we go again.. I need to understand "instincts".. By the way this is a need which is not mine... I am forced to understand "instincts".. Though I am pretty sure, "instincts" are also not free!
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I can think of hazaar instances supporting the article... so now the challenge is to think of a point which contradicts the thought...
an example - "creative" writing... people who write stories or make movies, it seems that whatever thoughts they have are original.. only talking about "good" stories and "good" movies...but since i haven't done anything in this department, i cannot be 100% sure that its original thinking...
second example: breakthrough research problems... although here u can say that very few are original thoughts, rest are developed from there... but atleast there are few which are original... one name that would pop up is Einstein... and there are tons of names...
will write more later...
Last comment had my first (parallel) thoughts... Now if we analyze the article "logically", the first step would be to define free/freedom. I guess as soon as you do this, the post would seem trivial, or with severe flaws.
And to define freedom, might want to consider a subject who is "not free" - according to the "acceptable" norms of freedom. (Again we will be avoiding the definition, but it might be easier.) And once having defined a "not free" subject, we need to see if we are actually free... this line of thinking is more like a mathematical approach...
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