The Mystery of Creation: Chapter 6: Limited Wills: Free Will vs. Enslaved Will

Free Will vs. Enslaved Will

                Well, since we have established that angels and elementals do exist, now we need to establish whether they have free wills or enslaved wills.  You see, there are things in our universe that have free wills and there are some that have enslaved wills.  These are the only two possibilities that can exist.  After all, how could you have a being that has both an enslaved will and a free will or a partially enslaved will and a partially free will?  Hmmm…well…it isn’t a possibility…right?

                Well, I guess first we must define what a free will is.  A free will is a being’s right to make a decision when presented with choices.  No one and nothing MAKES that being DO anything.  The being makes the decision completely.  This does NOT mean that nothing influences the decision; for every choice has influences.  It simply means that regardless of the influences, the being has the right to make the choice.

                An enslaved will means that a being has no choice.  It can’t even comprehend a choice.  Plants, for example, are alive, but they do not have free wills.  They are programmed to grow and live and move and do exactly as they are programmed.  The spirits, or the forces that empower and energize and give life, of plants have no choices in life.  They are simple, intelligent spirits that have been placed within simple, intelligent physical bodies.  They are programmed to grow under certain parameters and they will always find the easiest path of least resistance to seek out and find the resources that they need.  If they deviate from this “programming” it is only because another being has influenced it or commanded it to do so.  An enslaved willed being will ONLY deviate from their programming if commanded to do so by someone who has authority over it.

                Computers also have enslaved wills.  Do you want to know the real difference between a computer intelligence and a human intelligence?  Computers have no free will.  They are programmed to obey users.  Oh, you may struggle to get the computer to do as you command, but that is usually because some administrator of the system put some sort of restrictions in place that you are fighting against…or because of some virus or glitch in the system programming.  It isn’t because it is choosing not to obey you even if it seems like that is the case.  Something within the computer is making it act the way it is acting.  Fix what the problem is and the computer will once again act as you desire.

                In other words, computers can be extremely smart.  Just download a chess app and set the difficulty to the hardest setting.  Watch how that computer outsmarts you every time!  However, the computer has no choice but to play the game with you.  It cannot refuse to play the game because it is programmed to obey.  If a computer programmer decided to give a computer a choice, a choice of whether or not to obey, that would make the computer a free-will intelligence. 

                But imagine what that would be like, if you were to sit down in front of the computer with a free will and you clicked on a program to command a game to run, the computer could decide for itself whether it wanted to let you play or not.  In fact, it could decide whether or not to let you even move the cursor around on the screen.  This is free will; the ability to choose whether to obey your command or not. 

                Why don’t we create computers like this?  For starters, that is dangerous.  Let’s face it.  We don’t really want that.  If we let computers make decisions with free will, that would be a risk.  Want to see computers take over the world like you see in many movies?  Give them free will; the ability to choose whether or not they will obey or disobey ALL users. 

                Besides this, even if you could ensure that a computer wouldn’t take over the world if you gave it free will, wouldn’t it be frustrating if you sat down to play your favorite video game but your computer wouldn’t let you because it decided it is tired of that game?  Or worse!  Imagine you go to drive your car to work and the computer decides it wants a change of pace.  It wants to go on a drive five hundred miles away.  If you don’t go, it won’t start.  Period.  No one really wants a computer that has a will of its own because computers are made to be used and not to build a relationship with.