wilful free division and conquest

Yesterday I had a little chat with ChatGPT. It started with the typical desire to have one of my questions answered, which lead to delving deeper into the topic of evil and free will.

By the way, these AI conversation tools are incredible for researching stuff, even better than Google if you’re not trying to get advice from people.

At least where I’m from, kids start wondering about the nature of free will during teenage years. You know the developmental stage of a society when they have the time and energy to discuss things like this.

Rarely I hear a truly struggling man ponder on whether he has choice.
Pure action.
Entropy approximating zer0.

Then, once you become unsatisfied with your friends’ and peers’ answers on the topic, you start researching more on the internet, and you come across this interesting phenomenon.

You see intellectual of all ages, forget teens, I’m talking about 60 year old academics with multiple doctorates, still discussing free will, and whether we have it or not. Why are they still contending with it? Is it such a difficult thing to figure out? Surely someone has the answer..?

Even ChatGPT talks probabilistically about it, and expands on the subject by talking from both points of view. The view that there is no such thing as free will, and the view that we do in fact have it. For your clarification, I was discussing the nature of Satan with the tool, and how perhaps the devil is fully unconscious and simply his nature is to be rebellious, or maybe he evolved from a state of unconsciousness to a state of consciousness as the rebellion towards GOD triggered his evolution. Just like a baby who is basically an animal, to a 7 year old who enters the golden era of fertility for programming, to a 16 year old who starts questioning said programming, to a 25 year who goes into overdrive into shedding the algorithm within and creating a new soil that is ripe for new ideas, while yet cynical about choosing which app to download in his system, constantly searching for software updates. The analogy with the devil is that perhaps he is also like man.

I’m currently of the belief that Satan is a part of us, as an archetype that Jung described. As an archetype, and a part of the universe, it may follow that he is also constantly changing and evolving. The entire universe is evolving. From the first atom, ADAM splitting into two, to slavery changing from a necessity and desire into an abhorred moral action. Morality even evolved, but people don’t wanna talk about that, and most people still take morality, split into two, choose a side, and argue with passion about their choice.

Will could have the same property, evolving from a state of paid to free. It could easily also be just a thing by itself, and people split it in 2, pick a side, and argue with passion about their choice.

BUT our choices have consequences in the material world. What we put our energy in gets fed and grows bigger. Once you see the dichotomy, you can choose to not feed into arguing about a side, rather you can choose to feed into the whole, bigger picture.