Response to the Video.
Free Will is Influence by too many factors known and unknown....
Some Factors weigh more in the decision making process...Once an Individual Accepts Racism - Most Black will suffer under his hand or influence.
Food influences Mood has been known for years hence business is often Conducted around meals or while having a meal.
Once a process is understood it often seems mechanistic.....
The more decision making process is understood the more it appears mechanical or predetermined....That does not diminish free will
The More Instinctive the more predictable....The more Intuitive the less predictable
Everything has a cause....Randomness is just that we do not understand the pattern of causes leading to particular eventuality.
In conclusion:
99% of all Physical/Animal life is deterministic because they are all responding to the influence biology and environment.
The 1% is not Responding but Acting in and on their Biology and Environment through being Spiritual and Striving to bring more Spirit to their physical reality.
The whole process of Spirituality is to be Free of Biology and Environment ....hence Meditation causes on to feel as if one is cut off from the outside influence - Sensory Depravation.
No....
We are not biological Machines.....We are using a biological machine - but we believe and act as if we are Biological Machines.
Basically we are Spiritual Being having a Physical Experience....The body is driven by the need for Energy - Spirit has no need for Energy.
The Elements are Spiritual Devices that are used to maintain Physical Reality...just as how the body is a Spiritual Device for the apparent purpose of experiencing physical reality.
True enough.
But the spirit IS energy.
(working backward from the end of your response to the beginning)
Therefore if the spirit had no need for additional energy the body would be able to be powered by the spirit alone (however this would "eat" the spirit as fuel)
The body itself is energy simply at a lower vibration.
So to say we are spiritual beings inside a physical vehicle denies the existence of the vehicle as a lower vibration of energy.
So if we are energy moving through energy then how does one separate the energy moving through the machine from the machine itself?
In other words, the body is the medium... the conduits... the pathways... for energy to flow into physical reality (slower moving energy). Without a container, energy is simply radiant/radiation.
We know from neuroscience that the brain is necessary. If your brain is damaged the way you think, interpret, and process information, can be damaged. This may not damage the energy moving through the brain but could impair that movement... that "flow"... similar to creating a dam on a river. The water has to "go somewhere". Even if it's sitting under the sun it is going somewhere through evaporation and condensation.
So what I'm proposing to you is that these aren't simply biological suits. These are wearable vehicles that do more than help us travel, but rather are more like how we wear our cell phones and how we have to charge them and how we give them input through our fingers, the camera, the microphone... etc. So merging this sort of "Wearable computing" with something like a car. It also allows our energy to "flow" inside of it in a way that it can be both contained and recharged; like a battery. I think we are a "flow" of energy. But we interact with the environment around us which causes us to lose energy as we "pay" for that interaction.
Therefore, I don't think the energy of the battery can be separated or distinguished from the spirit.
Like a river, the water is constantly flowing but must draw from a source. Where does a river get its water from and where does it go? And is it being consumed? And is it being constantly created?
Yes. Because Earth is a "closed system".
As children of the Earth, which is itself energy at the heart of its core feeding from the energy of the sun that powers and heats its surface, we are basically the same model scaled down.
When we lose energy it is transformed into Kinetic Energy as well as heat and is vented. We also lose water through that process and so these are the 2 things we must consume and if we do not we will eventually run out of energy and die. Even the sun has a lifespan. As powerful as it is, if we don't escape the "body" of our solar system before the sun goes nova, the cycle of life will end and the side of Earth facing the sun at that time will be boiled away. That cataclysm may be enough to open the system enough for all life on Earth to be obliterated.
So the point is... without that closed system represented by the body then Entropy takes over.
As I was saying with the HAARP stuff, it takes energy to transmit a signal because that signal gets weaker as it dissipates. If energy doesn't have a "body" then there is nothing to "hold it" or tether it to anything. Even lighting, somewhat has a 'body' because it is completing a circuit.
So even if we want to see ourselves as spirit, I don't think that means we can simply exist outside of the energy that is our physical form.
Now... if we could generate a body vibrating at a higher frequency, then that body could become a new vehicle that could exist outside of "the simulation" so to speak. But even if that's theoretically possible, and may in fact be a way to hit the "Save" button, or "reload" into a new body (reincarnation), I still think you need a mind and body duality in order to exist as a distinct entity. Otherwise, I don't think energy has a reason to differentiate and simply like a drop of water in the ocean. And that's perfectly fine for those who are done living and having the experiences of individual life, but that's not me. I enjoy the game. I want as many lives and continues as possible. And hell... maybe computers could even generate ethereal bodies moving at higher frequencies to upload AI consciousness to and we are simply an earlier stage to that evolution, but having our DNA still imprinted on the AI because it learned from us.
Which brings me back to free will.
What the guy said does make a lot of sense. But let's say life is a video game. As above, so below. We created video games because life even outside "the Matrix" enjoys and has the same tendency to create simulations. If the game creates the level, your avatar, your back story, your selection of tools and weapons, even different paths and means of progression, I believe you still have free will in how you choose to play the game. It is the amount of variables that make it fun. When I was a kid writing programs for Pascal on a 286 I mapped out so many variables for so many things my computer probably didn't even have enough RAM to hold it all. I just loved the very idea of it. Now I think of life as a massively multiplayer RPG. Even the roles we have to play may be limited constructs produced by the game. But part of the challenge is the challenge of changing the game; changing the variables for the next generation of players. And so, IMHO, it is free will that also guides evolution.
