Is Free Will an Illusion? Post Response (NoHN)

I am responding to the post here.

"if you can choose between two doors, Door A and Door B, but unbeknownst to you, Door B is locked. If you choose Door A, is that free will or was it determined that you would go through Door A? "

My answer to this is yes. The individual was destined to go through that door. Maybe they attempted to open door  and then realized it was locked and then went to door A, well, in my opinion then that was determined as well. Some previous series of events led to that door being locked and it lead to that individual attempting to open that door. It gives an illusion of free will that does not really exist.  The fact that I looked through about half of our classmates blogs before "deciding' to respond to yours was also destined to occur. Both examples are caused by past events that have caused current preferences which have lead to unavoidable actions that were bound to occur. To think that I would have responded to a different blogpost or to say that an individual would have gone through door B means that we are setting up an entirely new group of events that would have preceded the event itself. To think this way is just like saying, "I'm me, but if I weren't me (because we are the sum of our situations and events) then this would have occurred (something that couldn't have occurred without changing the premises for the argument). "

In conclusion, yes. We were determined to do whatever it is that we think we chose. We don't know that things are bound to happen, therefore we are given an illusion of choice. 


~Ama-Bemma