Directions

So where is this blog going?

Well, I am not sure but forward, without a clear destination. Just like life, we know that we will die, but not what all we might do on the way, the things we will see, sounds like a Dr. Seuss. Life is our greatest asset, so we should not do anything that detracts from it, and do everything to add to it. Likewise I must paint on a new purpose and do something for mankind, and myself, as motivation is always based on my desires. Production, or at least action is a virtue in a proactive life style. So says the philosophy anyway.

I have been looking at the question of where I fit on the determinism verse free will debate or question, well continuum more like. I believe along the Stoic line, we have complete control over our ability to assent to a concept or not, and little more. We can then build up a belief system, a matrix of previous made decisions, for quick judgements, all based on evidence. This is our automatic preformed way of acting, which is much quicker that sorting out and using reason to make decisions. Filling out that matrix is just pre-making the decisions, preparing ourselves for the future through visualization perhaps. It can also be cleaning of our belief system... using evidence to sort through and get rid of crap.

When we are born, the world we are born into is deterministic, we have no influence. As we grow we develop a bit of free will, and gain control over our ability to assent or refuse, or hold in abeyance any concept. We then have some influence but no control of much more. We essentially live in a deterministic world, where most stuff is not determined bu us. Our free will is limited to agreeing, abeyance, or disagree with any single concept, and what can be built from those single concepts. Oh well. The body will demand some things, and there is little we can do about that but to do, if the ingredients are available.  

Some of us have bodies who's cells that will not fat, so we get hungry while we have fats available. Oh well, if we could just get the insulin down low enough, we would not need to eat, but we fail, not because of less will power but due to high insulin and ever present hunger. Oh well, in the end we all just die anyway.