quoting myself:
i like to think of fate in the scientific way. according to the book of deusum, if you know the location of - and the direction that every atom is moving, you could predict where they will be a second later. you could determine that certain atoms or molecules are going to colide and there will be certain predictable repercussions. therefore, assuming you could make these massive calculations, you could predict where atoms will be at any point in time. your brain is just a complex system of cells made of molecules made of atoms made of quarks, and so on. if i knew where the chemicals in your brain were i could predict where they will be later, and therefore i could know what lies in your future. thus, you have no free will. it's a pseudo free will based on the motion of atoms set upon us starting at the big bang and also having something to do with our primitive minds being incapable of computing every atom around us simultaneously. if we were to make a computer to monitor every particle on earth it would probably have to be the size of Jupiter, if not the Sun. so, perhaps, man/woman is not greater than animal because we have free will, but rather because we can acknowledge that free will may not exist.
i like to think of fate in the scientific way. according to the book of deusum, if you know the location of - and the direction that every atom is moving, you could predict where they will be a second later. you could determine that certain atoms or molecules are going to colide and there will be certain predictable repercussions. therefore, assuming you could make these massive calculations, you could predict where atoms will be at any point in time. your brain is just a complex system of cells made of molecules made of atoms made of quarks, and so on. if i knew where the chemicals in your brain were i could predict where they will be later, and therefore i could know what lies in your future. thus, you have no free will. it's a pseudo free will based on the motion of atoms set upon us starting at the big bang and also having something to do with our primitive minds being incapable of computing every atom around us simultaneously. if we were to make a computer to monitor every particle on earth it would probably have to be the size of Jupiter, if not the Sun. so, perhaps, man/woman is not greater than animal because we have free will, but rather because we can acknowledge that free will may not exist.