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FREE WILL is the ability to choose between different possible courses of action unimpeded. the capacity to make choices in which the outcome has not been determined by past events. Free will is closely linked to the concepts of moral responsibility, praise, guilt, sin, and other judgements which apply only to actions that are freely chosen.

​The underlying questions are whether we have control over our actions, and if so, what sort of control, and to what extent. Humans have a strong sense of freedom, which leads us to believe that we have free will. Freedom of personal choice is afforded to us all and we decide what paths to take. Think about how upset you get when a choice is taken away from you.

VOCABULARY OF FREE WILL
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CAUSAL DETERMINISM- idea that everything is caused by prior conditions, making it impossible for anything else to happen. The concept that events within a given paradigm are bound by CAUSALITY in such a way that any state (of an object or event) is completely determined by prior states. It proposes that there is an unbroken chain of prior occurrences stretching back to the origin of the universe. Causal determinists believe that there is nothing uncaused or self-caused.

​CAUSAL CLOSURE - It is difficult to reconcile the intuitive evidence that conscious decisions are causally effective with the view that the physical world can be explained entirely by physical law. The conflict between intuitively felt freedom and natural law arises when either causal closure or physical determinism (nomological determinism) is asserted. With causal closure, no physical event has a cause outside the physical domain, and with physical determinism, the future is determined entirely by preceding events (cause and effect).

DILEMMA OF DETERMINISM - The puzzle of reconciling 'free will' with a deterministic universe is known as the problem of free will or sometimes referred to as the dilemma of determinism. This dilemma leads to a moral dilemma as well: the question of how to assign responsibility for actions if they are caused entirely by past events.
  • Compatibilists often associate freedom of will with the ability to make rational decisions.
  • A different approach to the dilemma is that of incompatibilists. If the world is deterministic, then our feeling that we are free to choose an action is simply an illusion.

CENTERED ACCOUNTS - propose that for any given decision between two possibilities, the strength of reason will be considered for each option, yet there is still a probability the weaker choice will be chosen. An obvious objection to such a view is that decisions are explicitly left up to chance, and origination or responsibility cannot be assigned for any given decision.

COMPATIBILISM - the belief that free will and determinism are mutually compatible and that it is possible to believe in both without being logically inconsistent. Compatibilists believe freedom can be present or absent in situations for reasons that have nothing to do with metaphysics. They say causal determinism does not exclude the truth of possible future outcomes.
  • Classical compatibilists considered free will nothing more than freedom of action, considering one free of will simply if, had one counterfactually wanted to do otherwise, one could have done otherwise without physical impediment.
  • Contemporary compatibilists identify free will as a psychological capacity, such as to direct one's behavior in a way responsive to reason, and there are still further different conceptions of free will, each with their own concerns, sharing only the common feature of not finding the possibility of determinism a threat to the possibility of free will.

The underlying questions are whether we have control over our actions, and if so, what sort of control, and to what extent. Humans have a strong sense of freedom, which leads us to believe that we have free will. On the other hand, an intuitive feeling of free will could be mistaken.

​DELIBERATIVE INDETERMINISM - asserts that the indeterminism is confined to an earlier stage in the decision process. This is intended to provide an indeterminate set of possibilities to choose from, while not risking the introduction of luck (random decision making). The selection process is deterministic, although it may be based on earlier preferences established by the same process.

DESTINY - implies there is a set course that cannot be deviated from, but does not of itself make any claim with respect to the setting of that course (i.e., it does not necessarily conflict with incompatibilist free will). Free will could be the mechanism by which that destined outcome is chosen.

HARD INCOMPATIBILISM- the idea that free will cannot exist, whether the world is deterministic or not.

INCOMPATIBILISM - the position that free will and determinism are logically incompatible, and that the major question regarding whether or not people have free will is thus whether or not their actions are determined. Another view is that of hard incompatibilists, which state that free will is incompatible with both determinism and indeterminism.
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EFFORTS OF WILL THEORY - related to the role of will power in decision making. It suggests that the indeterminacy of volition processes could map to the indeterminacy of certain physical events – and the outcomes of these events could therefore be considered caused by the person. Models of volition have been constructed in which it is seen as a particular kind of complex, high-level process with an element of physical indeterminism.

LIBERTARIANISM - is one of the main philosophical positions related to the problems of free will and determinism, which are part of the larger domain of metaphysics. Libertarianism is an incompatibilist position. It posits that determinism is false and free will is possible (at least some people have free will). Arguments have been made against libertarianism in that it is difficult to assign ORIGINATION - the responsibility for "free" indeterministic choices.
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LOGICAL DETERMINISM- the notion that all propositions, whether about the past, present, or future, are either true or false. This creates a unique problem for free will given that propositions about the future already have a truth value in the present (that is it is already determined as either true or false), and is referred to as the problem of future contingents.

NOMOLOGICAL (or scientific) DETERMINISM , future events are necessitated by past and present events combined with the laws of nature. It is notion that the past and the present dictate the future entirely and necessarily by rigid natural laws, that every occurrence results inevitably from prior events. Quantum mechanics poses a serious challenge to this view.

OMNISCIENCE- the capacity to know everything that there is to know (included in which are all future events), and is a property often attributed to a creator deity. Omniscience implies the existence of destiny. Some authors have claimed that free will cannot coexist with omniscience.
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​THEOLOGICAL DETERMINISM- the idea that the future is already determined, either by a creator deity decreeing or knowing its outcome in advance. The problem of free will, in this context, is the problem of how our actions can be free if there is a being who has determined them for us in advance, or if they are already set in time.

​Fate and destiny are mystical influences that we can only implement in our lives by our own free will. Soulmates CHOOSE each other and eternity is only guaranteed by continuing to CHOOSE each other. Eternity is a romanticized subjective idea that has no proof to offer so we must rely on the only thing we have. FAITH. The lesson to learn here is that the present - right now - is our only guarantee.

An answer to soulmates is rather simple. A interlinked duality of choice and faith wrapped up in the beauty of loving mindfully in the
​PRESENT MOMENT
And choosing to love one another every day is a way to guarantee
your story as a soulmate connection
​IS IT THAT SIMPLE?
​You Decide.


​Seek to Form Forever Love

Forever love does not look like a perfect relationship. It does not mean that you don't face obstacles and challenges as a couple. It does not mean that you never argue or that things are always going smoothly. However, it means that you do not give up even during the difficult times. You understand that every relationship will have hiccups and bumps along the way, but it is your job to persevere through them because you love the other person enough to endure the difficult times.

Forever love is more than the passionate stage of love when you don't see the each other’s faults, and you feel like everything is right with the world. Forever love is unconditional. You don't withhold love when things are not going your way because you love that person so much you are unable to do that. And, even in the times when you feel tempted to, you choose not to.
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How Do You Get Forever Love?
Forever love is not something that you can just go out and obtain or find it in the street. It is not something that you will experience during the first moments of knowing someone. It is not to be mistaken with "love at first sight," which is more of a physical attraction. Forever love is builtover time. It is only obtainable when you have made a conscious decision to stay in a relationship no matter what. It is when your relationship has a strong bond of trust, and you know that you are determined to continue loving that person no matter what.

The only way to reach the point of forever love is to go through the stages of love. Your relationship begins in the stage where everything is new, exciting, and seems good. Then, you move to the stage of committing to one another and building a life together. Next, you overcome the stage of challenges. It is at this stage that many people give up on the relationship and turn their back on love. This is the place where many divorces happen because the couple finds they "just don't love each other anymore." This is a mistake because it is only after moving past this stage that you will have forever love. If you always bail on relationships instead of persevering to overcome this stage, you will never find forever love.
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It is at this point that you have decided that love is a choice and you are going to choose to love this person for the rest of your life. You know they are not perfect, but you don't care. You no longer love them because of what they do for you and because you think they are "perfect." Instead, you are choosing to love them despite their shortcomings.

​Forever love is not something that is found or stumbled upon, it is something that you choose. (Source)
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