3 Reasons Why I Believe in "Free Will" (Or Free Immanence more accurately)
The following is a message I sent to a friend about my views on free will.
1- I think linear determinism collapses into theism because it can't explain why the present would need to even exist at all if the first moment in reality was perfectly itself, because the only way that something like that actually could effectuate anything is just being some micro managing forward forcing power or reason which to me is just God. To have an atheistic ontology uncertainty and the present need to be real for me in some sense
2 - Internal and external is an irrelevant dualistic distinction in terms of the free will debate as I think we are and link of both without and bounded determinate negation in the Hegelian sense but rather a self determining field. We ARE the very I interplay of external and internal forces as a continuous field of energy. Our experiences is just the most concentrated point of a certain perspective on the universe. The universe irreversibly changes us, but our being as well also irreversibly changes the universe ( I think in both directions cuz I don't think time is linear) and I think the movement through this tension is a sublimation made in the present by the very determination of the world self complex itself (not transcendent but absolutely immanent), which is what I would call free will.
3- Again I don't think time is linear but operates at non local actions at a distance through memory, so what influences us in the past is not just straight dominos of the origin but rather dispersed moments becoming more prominent and rippling out to receptive receivers.
It might be worth noting that the non-transcendent and totally relational nature of the self posited for this version of agency might be better named "free immanence" than free will...