Thinking - Robert Hamill

Free Will, Newton, Discussions Points

Let us consider Newton's 1st Law.
Law : An object at rest tends to stay at rest and an object in motion tends to stay in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by a force.

Theory-laden Observations

Determinism is the rule in the world, until a life form selects an impinging activity.

A ball rolling down a hill continues to follow its calculated path unless a person, dog, or cat decides to intercept it.

Each living mind is a center of free will action amid a world of determinism.

An action in motion continues in motion until acted on by a freely chosen action.

Codicil to Newton's 1st Law: And some of those forces are applied by freely choosing agents.

Some discussion points on free will

Is it an illusion that I can choose to move my hand to either the right or the left, at my will?
- My working hypothesis is that it is not an illusion.
Does Goedel's theorem that there are propositions that can neither be proved nor disproved imply that strict logic from preconditions can't conclusively indicate which 'consequence' will follow?
- Or is it an artifact of modeling reality rather than reality? See Potential Infinity
Was Laplace wrong when he asserted that if he knew the positions and momenta of all celestial objects he could tell where they had ever been and where they would ever be?
- Yes. If we exploded all our nuclear bombs in strategic Lunar locations, we could obliterate the moon and Laplace's observations would have never predicted it.
Does modern development of fractal theory show that even small errors in facts can lead to large errors in conclusions?