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Free will

ediate or distant past. Everything in existence is constantly faced with time and action, which are controlled by the laws of nature. These events that surround everything in existence might effect the individual actions of everything in the Universe. Theoretically predicting the actions of the universe are possible, but practically, human beings can only calculate a fraction of what nature is capable of performing. Everything that is practically predictable is also theoretically predictable, but the opposite cannot be true. With the existence of determinism, no action can occur without being determined by a preceding event or a force of nature. However, this does not prove in any way that free will does not exist.The only possible way that a random event of unpredictability can occur is if a person, who desires free will, is able to control the laws of nature and the past in order to ensure that neither of the two will effect their action in any way. The control over the past and the laws of nature would give a person the ability to do other than what they are determined to do. This would be classified, as an action made that would change the future, because it does not make the future as it was determined to be. There can be free will if only both scientific nature and the past are controlled, for example, if a person with special powers is able to control the amount of gravity applied on their body performs an action of jumping thirty feet up in the air, they cannot claim to have free will. Without any control over the past, for example, when this person was given this special power as an infant, determinism cannot be proven false because an act of the past determined one of many future actions that occurred. Control over just the past does not prove free will to be true as well. Free will can be an illusion in the case that a person, who considers their actions as act of freedom, does not realize that simply having a variety of choi...

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