But do you choose a favorite color or food? Maybe you weigh your options and go meeeh, this one seems kinda right? Maybe beliefs can align as a part of the rest of the whole?
Can we actually make choices that are outside of our biological imperative? If it's imperative, then that means imo it's the river bed or frame where every other decision is embedded in. So either way, all one does points towards re-creating yourself ie producing offspring. Whether that offspring is future you in a changed version of your self or a future you in another body doesn't matter so much. We're all having intercourse with ourselves.
The hen is in the egg and the egg is in the hen. How can both parts be inside of each other? - Could be a running gag among gays
Distinct yet integrated.
Is the questioning of fate also fate?
Everyone has a moral compass. Morality does exist. The closer you look, the more layers of black and white you find that appear to be grey when zooming out far enough. Even socio and psychopaths have morality. Morality is a cluster of beliefs that form an internal structures or web. Structure can imply rigidity, that's not what I want here. Soldiers have morale that can be high or low.
So a good morality should allow you to go as worry-free through life as possible imo, with no disastrous consequences.
Imo both the Super D and the Quantum T try to approach acceptance of the outcome of dice as well as they can.
Free will operates inside of consciousness imo. It's not interchangeable, but rather a sub-function.
Isn't it still up to debate whether all thought is just a chemical reaction? Obviously a connection exists, but a purely materialistic view points fails to capture beauty, appreciation, adoration, subjective experience. When you operate your self, do you think of sending X amount of chemicals to Y location in Z packets? Why is there even a sense of self? And do all animals have the same one? Or do people have vastly different selfs or is it the same self that's merely colored in different shades?
I mean yeah, medical parameters to assess functions of consciousness exist. But does anyone want to be boiled down to a machine? Why do we think of ourselves to be special at all? Why is there so much variance inside of humanity?
'So if someone asks me if free will exists, they don't know my answer. That's what matters.'
I don't get that part. Do you know your answer?
Internal rebellion and struggle certainly is a choice to various degrees.
How did our belief in a God determined universe evolve with our consciousness?
My guess is we always had a outside world that was bigger and stronger than us in some ways. While the individual can exert some amount of control and dominance over the environment, in the end one always has to bow to external influences outside of one's control. We all grow old, no one can escape time, as far as I know. And a multitude of other factors, but one's societal status, access to money and tools, connections to other people can make things easier.
We never left the jungle lol. The jungle or forest or environment is in us, and we are inside out of it. Radical acceptance and the associated gradual insight may lead to a feeling of peace with increased competence.