Re: Mind's Eye Re: Matter

What I understand you to be saying is merely that free will is limited to the number of possible choices that are available to the organism within the total capacities of the material matter of the organism.  The part where you stop making sense to me is

"  If you think that is freedom , then you are really the 

master of yourself. " in context of the example you used with Lee.

That is    "where I would have 
beaten up a child mercilessly  you would not have because you are not 
free , if you think you are go ahead and shoot up your enemy , but of 
course you would not because your reason would stop you where mine 
would not." 

What does 'if you think that is freedom, the you are really the master of yourself' mean?  


On Thursday, July 12, 2012 10:53:49 PM UTC+10, RP Singh wrote:

The will to change yourself comes from within you , but those who are
ignorant of the intricacies of nature think that they have brought
about this change. When you breathe you think that you are  freely
doing so but the fact is that it is your body which is demanding it.
Whether you are controlling your anger or not is in your hands but
your decisions arise from the working of your brain which is matter
and as such governed by neurological or biological principles. If
freedom was real the whole machinery of the universe would have
collapsed and there would have been mayhem everywhere , but that is
not the case and wherever you look you find harmony within. Whatever a
man does it is his nature expressing itself , where I would have
beaten up a child mercilessly  you would not have because you are not
free , if you think you are go ahead and shoot up your enemy , but of
course you would not because your reason would stop you where mine
would not. If you think that is freedom , then you are really the
master of yourself.

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