We all make mistakes knowingly or unknowingly. But a few mistakes that I made in the past still haunt me. How do I overcome those?
We all make mistakes knowingly or unknowingly. But a few mistakes that I made in the past still haunt me. How do I overcome those?
I don’t believe in free will so there’s no point at ruminating in past mistakes. I couldn’t have done otherwise. I’m now just telling myself a story which makes me feel bad but achieves nothing else.
And no. This doesn’t mean I can do whatever and not take responsibility. If I intentionally hurt other people then yeah I could not have done otherwise but it does make me reflect on what kind of person does that.
I don’t think many people wrestle with the fact that we look at the entire cosmos as mechanical. And we’ve made some brilliant tech from that, to prove determinism to ourselves all of everyday.
Yet all that doesn’t apply to US, how could it?
The error in that logic is cataclysmic.
Can you have intention without free will?
Sure. You just didn’t author that intention in the way most would think. It’s just a feeling that has appeared in your consciousness which motivates you to act. You don’t choose to.