(September 18, 2013 at 8:27 am)Zone Wrote: You have the problem of something that has no freewill coming to an understanding of freewill without the use of freewill which doesn't quite follow.
The free-part seems to be something that's giving you a hard time. Everybody has different barriers that prevent them from processing information the same way. One's contemplation of a concept either occurs to them as something worth thinking about, or it doesn't. The factors that give this concept credence to the individual are beyond the individual's control, and do not originate in the conscious mind which is where one's sense of self comes from.
The concept occurs to your consciousness (You did not choose to think it)
Your subconscious determines your position on the concept (This occurs apart from your conscious mind being aware of it)
Your subconscious mind is molded by genetics, environment, exposure to specific social behavior, and life experiences. (You had no control over any of these defining factors which molded your subconscious)
Your conscious mind/sense of self considers it "free" to do as it wishes. Yet, everything that informs it is, has been, and will forever be outside of your conscious mind's control at that moment. At each moment, your behavior is determined by what you are at that moment, and you could not be any different or you would be in a different universe! The phenomena of reflection does not affirm its offspring to be born from a free and unrestricted source. It is an illusion.
