@boagie,
boagie wrote:As far as your ability to chose your reaction, compared to the lack of choice on the part of the innamate world, is that then, how one defines one's freewill by comparison?
... yes, that's certainly where this bit of noodling seems to lead ...
boagie wrote:One still cannot, not chose, or not react.
... that's how I see it - in order to be able to not react one would have to transcend the physical world ... and while some people do think that consciousness transcends the physical world, I personally do not ... absolutely everything in the physical world has to react - and we are creatures of the physical world ... so yes, it is inescapable that we have to react - but thankfully we are free to choose how!
