I’ve been ruminating on the article I wrote a couple of weeks back, “My Body, My Life, My Choice: Is It?” after some of the feedback I received. That feedback was that though we didn’t control coming into this world—when, where or to whom—we still have the freedom of choose certain things like the kind of life we want to lead.
This led back to what I wrote about earlier in the series and was trying to better understand. If we do get to choose what we do, where did the freedom to choose or freewill come from. At that time, I was intent on finding a clue in science. I looked at the four fundamental forces—gravity, the electromagnetic force and the strong and weak nuclear forces—that control everything that physically exists around and inside us. Everything from the edge of the universe 46 billion light years away—the very big—to the quark and electron at 10-18 meters—the very small. But the freewill to choose what we do didn’t come from these physical forces. At that juncture, I was excluding the metaphysical or anything that wasn’t materialistic in nature, including consciousness.
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