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ESCUELA POLITECNICA DEL EJERCITO

ARMY POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL

Ingeniera Mecatrnica

Mechatronics Engineering

FREE WILL

DARIO FERNANDO GUAMAN LOZADA

he biggest existing paradigm, is the

universe and its creation, which has

been leading an ongoing debate between two great

faiths, the first related to religion and those who

believe that an omnipotent Entity created life and

man, and the second by science, since Einstein's

equations could show that the universe is

constantly expanding.

the future, according to religion can be summarized

in a few words "God has full control on what can be

done," according to the Bible, a man is defined as a

creature made in God's image. then the man as the

image of God has free will.

but it seems that there are well-defined laws that

determine the evolution of the universe from its

initial state, these law may have been ordered by

God, although it is considered that he doesn't

intervene to transgress.

God may have chosen the configuration of the

universe, or this has been determinate itself by the

laws of science. However, Seems that everythingthat contains the universe would be determined by

evolution according to the laws of science. So it's

hard understand how we can be owners of our

destiny.

But if everything is determined by the laws of

science, then free will has to be an illusion.

We don't punish those who commit crimes when

they are crazy, because we believe they couldn't

avoid them. But if we are determined by a grand

theory, no one can avoid what we do. then how

blame someone of what he has done?.

Some people believe that are Jesus Christ, and can

be right. What we need is proof that we can apply

from outside, to distinguish if have free will.

Suppose, for example, we look a little green man

from another star. How we can to decide if he has

free will or was just a robot programmed like us?

This seems proof of free will, is possible to predict

the behavior of the organism? If so, doesn't have

free will and is predetermined, but, if isn't possible

to predict his behavior, the organism has free will.

Once that we can find a complete theory, we can

predict what people will do. But the human brain is

also subject to the indeterminacy principle. We

already know the basic physical laws that govern

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brain activity and are comparatively simple, but it

is quite difficult to solve equations when there are

more than a few particles. The human brain

contains one hundred quadrillion, which is

excessive, we are unable to resolve the equations

and predict how they behave, given its initial state.

Although we know the fundamental equations

governing the brain, we are unable to use them to

predict human behavior.

So all we can do, is determined by some grand

theory. If this theory has decided that somebody

will die hanged, won't died drowning. Has been

noted that even those who claim everything is

predestined and nothing can done to change it, look

before crossing the street. Perhaps because those

who do not look do not survive for tell us.

is impossible to base the people's behavior in theidea that everything is determined, because we

ignore what has been determined. On the contrary,

we have to adopt the theory of that we have free

will and we are responsible for our actions. This

theory is not useful to predicting human behavior,

but we adopted because we are unable to solve the

equations arising from the fundamental laws.

So, what left of our responsibility for the actions

taken, if everything is determined? The only

evidence that we have free will is that we can't

predict our behavior. In the case of humans are

entirely unable to use the laws to say what people

will do. Accordingly, and as there isn't way to

predict the human behavior, we have to adopt the

operational theory that we are free agents able to

choose what we do.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Black Holes and small Universes, Stephen Hawking