#mind # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought #to-digest # Related - [[en.wikipedia.org - Compatibilism - Wikipedia]] - [[Lex Fridman Podcast - 212 – Joscha Bach — Nature of Reality - Dreams - and Consciousness]] # TODOs [The Strong Free Will Theorem John H. Conway and Simon Kochen](https://www.ams.org/notices/200902/rtx090200226p.pdf?q=will&sa=U&ei=k71jU8X7DoypyASw9YGoCA&ved=0CCAQFjAB&usg=AFQjCNE7L-k87yWE32ru0rDjkLOdg12LRQ) # Free Will is merely an heuristic Free will is an emergent trait of the mind, an illusion that is useful for survival, but does not exists in [[Objective reality|objective reality]]. That means that me currently writing this obsidian thingy is because it is aligned with my [[Personal growth/Goal|goal]]s which are themselves emerging from my human nature and all the environment I swim in. We are machines optimising our environment according to our constraints, optimisation is the will.