The Mystery of Creation: Chapter 6: Limited Wills: "Programming" and Physical Limitations Determine the Degree of Freedom

“Programming” and Physical Limitations Determine the Degree of Freedom

                Now, in truth, all computers today are built with some degree of freedom and some degree of enslavement.  For example, when you play an app game on your phone or tablet you are given the ability to choose, within certain physical limits, where you want your character to go in that game.  Computer generated enemies also “choose” where they will go and how they will attack you.  If they did not, the game would be more like a movie.  You would have no control over your character and the enemies that attack you would attack you in the same exact way each time.  Therefore, cutscenes, in an app game enslave the wills of all characters in the game so that no matter what YOU want to happen, the game is making your character do as it was programmed to make it do.  You have no choice.  Your character is enslaved.

                So, although your character may have the ability to jump over that pitfall in other parts of the game, during that cutscene, your character is going to fall because its will is enslaved.  It has no choice.  It cannot will itself to jump over that pitfall no matter what. 

                In the same way, physical limitations prevent a will from being free.  You see, physical limitations reduce the number of choices a person can even choose from.  The less number of choices, the more enslaved the will is.  The greater the number of choices, the more free the will is.

                All things but God have limits.  As we discussed earlier, the unlimited line can create limited segments and rays.  The unlimited line remains unlimited, but each and every thing created on the line has limits.  Only the line is unlimited.

                So all beings with free wills are still free to make decisions, but all free will beings have limits to what decisions they can make based on their physical limitations.  They are only able to make decisions based on the choices presented to them.  If a choice or possibility is not presented to them, they have no ability to decide.

                In other words, a computer can be given free will to choose all sorts of things.  It can be given the ability to run its own maintenance programs.  It can be given the ability to decide whether or not to display a wallpaper of a kitty or a dog.  However, if it isn’t given any mobility, such as a robot body with legs or treads or wheels, it has no ability to choose where it goes.  It will go wherever it is taken by another person or thing. 

                This is just like a dog who has been put in a cage.  It may have a free will, but if it is physically unable to roam the house, it cannot roam the house.  It has no choice.  Its will has been enslaved by its physical limitations.  Likewise, a phone may be very smart.  You may allow your smartphone to control temperature in your house, when the lights turn on, etc. but if the wi-fi is turned off on the phone, it has no ability to control these things.  Therefore, even if your phone were given a free will, it has no ability to choose to control the lights or not in the house.

                So what does this really mean?  It actually means that the concepts of free will and enslaved will are just two extremes in a wide spectrum.  In truth, all things have a certain degree of freedom based on their physical limitations and their programmed limits.  A robot with wheels might have the physical means to move around, but if the programming within it doesn’t tell it to activate those wheels, it is not going anywhere.  Likewise, if a robot has programming that tells it to go somewhere, but it has no physical means to do so, its free will is limited by its physical limits.

                Therefore, it is safe to say that all things that we know of have a certain degree of free will.  We are all beings that fall within some wide spectrum of 100% free will and 100% enslaved.  What determines how free or enslaved our wills are?  Our physical and programmed limitations.