What is the Most Important Question in Your Life?

Does the question involve material things such as, "Will my house be foreclosed?", that's worry." Am I'm living authentically with God?", that's guilt. Beyond survival of "Am I'm going to eat today?", questions arise beyond the everyday survival mode.

Animals survive on a moment to moment basis. Do they have free will? What is the difference in your choice to 'deal or stay' in the poker game of life? Which job, neighborhood, car and spouse depends on what is best for your own welfare - then is it still a choice - or just the best logical outcome under chaotic circumstances?

What's the point of it all, what makes everything worthwhile? Family is number one, that's why you get up everyday and work that job to support your family. Then your boss asks you to take on much more time from your family and asks you, "What's more important? Your job or your family?", these are hard choices that can become unbalanced in focus. You have your job for you family but your jobs takes time away from your family.

It's wishful thinking that if landed on big money such as the lottery then that will solve all your problems. The chance of that happening are a zillion to nil. Seizing the day and finding happiness in your everyday life will come when you appreciate your health, family and good times. The worry that it will get worse in these economic times is gnawing at your happiness. "What ifs" occur when worrying about worse case secenarios.

Sometimes it;s not poor life choices but circumstance beyond your control that bring hardship. We have all made stupid mistakes, sometimes luck out on the draw and and other times, do everything right and still find yourself in a mess.

If ever listen to or attend a college course on 'Free Will versus Determinism', you will end the class depressed. There are several brooding philosophers who killed themselves when pondered this question.

Camus called existentialism “philosophical suicide." The resulting existential crisis is when the meaning of your life purpose has vanished into a fate you cannot escape. This is very distressing and depressing. Camus once said, "The only serious philosophical question is whether or not to commit suicide."

Jerry G2 said it best in his article, "Predestination Vs Free Will" when he said, "fuzziness" of existence. If Jeff Tollaksen's explanation of Quantum Superposition is true then Aharonov's indeterminism says that future states as well as past states determine the current event of choice. Like Schrödinger's Cat, the final action determines the previous state.

This is saying something different than mere randomness. Having randomness or chaos does not imply free will. All chaos says is that there is no way to prove humans have free will. "Indeterminism does not confer freedom on us" - J.J.C. Smart

Unable to predict random chaos if two nearly identical initial states are totally different in a very short time is called SDIC, Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions. Is free will SDIC? Perhaps chaos only appears random and unpredictable because it's so complex and is actually determined by natural laws.

Greek tragedies often center around avoiding a predicted fate, only to have the very avoidance actions bring to fruition the doomed prediction. The non-randomness of human choices seems valid in everyday experiences because they seem reasonable but doesn't exclude random elements in the decision. J Krishnamurti said, "Most of our actions are the result of the past, or according to a future ideal. That's not action, that is just conformity."

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No matter what your decide, it is the circumstance and your background that has led up the the decision in a classical theory of physics. Everyday self-interested game theory maximizes the payoff such as when driving a car down the highway. Can I make this yellow-light? Are there cops around? Are there any semi-trucks in the intersection that I might collide with?

If addiction seems crazy to other people, it makes sense to the person who is choosing the lesser of the two evils. In the game theory book, "The Logic of Life", it "explains how addiction can be a rational thing, how it involves warring parts of our brain." - India Uncut

According to active self-determinism, we can ultimately choose independently of culture and past conditionnig." - philosophy.tamu.edu

Soft determinism means we all have a limited choice.