"Free Will" in the light of quantum physics

  • 2016

The debates that confront Free Will with Destiny or determinism are common ; that is, among those who defend our most absolute freedom of choice to do or stop doing whatever we want; compared to those who affirm that everything is planned or determined in advance and that the decisions we make are of little importance since nothing we do will change our destiny. Both options are worthy of a long reflection and surely we will find most convincing arguments both for and against. However, there is an interesting theory in the field of quantum mechanics that can help us reconcile these apparently dichotomous assumptions by making them compatible with each other.

This new perspective is based on the so-called " Paradox of Schrödinger ", an imaginary experiment conceived by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger consisting of the following:

Imagine a system formed by a closed and opaque box with a cat inside; a bottle of poisonous gas and a device with two positions, one that would release the poisonous gas inside the box thus killing the cat and another that would not. An elementary particle would be thrown like an electron through a long conduit that branches into two other conduits, one of them would lead to the position that releases the poisonous gas and the other would lead to the position that does not release it. According to this theory, the electron, instead of passing through one of the two ducts that separate at the fork, would pass through both ducts at once (it has been observed that this is the case in the world of subatomic particles). This means that at the end of the experiment we would obtain two opposite and simultaneous states, one with the live cat and one with the dead cat; both coexisting in the same temporal space but in overlapping universes . It would be only when opening the box when we would discover in which of the two universes we are.

This approach to simultaneous realities is closely related to what happens on a larger scale to humans. It happens that in each of the crossroads in which we find ourselves throughout our lives, that is, in those situations of special importance in which we have to make a decision that will make our life run by one or the other course; At that precise moment there is a spatio-temporal unfolding in which so many parallel lives are generated as possibilities of choice we can get to cover (our life as married, as single, with children, without children, living in one country or another, with this or that profession, etc.).

There is the whole range of possible destinations to live but from which we have to choose which of them we want to live . The version of life that we choose to live is the one that will finally come to fruition in the terrestrial plane and is the one that will bring us the experiential experience . The rest of the alternatives, as suggested by the quantum mechanics and the biocentrism theory of Dr. Robert Lanza, are possibilities that simply exist in other parallel or multiverse universes , given that every conscious possibility generates in itself its corresponding superimposed and simultaneous reality. .

It should be said that all this infinity of parallel lives that we will only be aware of when we access higher levels of existence, also at another level enrich our Being .

This means that in the last term it is in our hands to decide what experiences we want to be part of our life to nourish ourselves with the experiential knowledge that they can give us.

Thus, once we unite consciousness and matter in order to start a new life cycle, beyond the conditions with which we find ourselves in the physical plane, we will always have the possibility to choose How we want to live our life . Free Will is therefore an inherent right to the Being that allows us to assume the prominence of our own existence . However, as we well know, everyone is responsible for their actions even when they are not fully aware of it.

This is a reality that is perfectly integrated into another of these axioms or immutable laws that govern the entire universe; the Principle of Causality . This principle comes to say the following: Every action causes a movement that relates the initial event (the cause) to a second event (the effect) that arises as a result of the first and is intended to restore the original balance . In other words, that everything we think, say and do, emits a certain expansive energy that sooner or later will eventually return to us in the same condition and in the same proportion. It follows, as the ancient spiritual traditions have always told us, that no one but oneself is responsible for what happens in life, even though it often falls in the ambiguity of wanting to signal any other person or situation as the cause of their misfortune.

And it is that we generally have a very limited perspective of what in our eyes is the only possible reality, judging for that reason the people (and ourselves) according to their actions but without knowing at all the totality of the background or the causes that have motivated them. That is, beyond the intrinsic limitations of any judicial system such as its jurisprudence or competence and professionalism of lawyers, prosecutors and judges; Ultimately there is a clear inability to achieve genuine justice because it is necessary to have a much greater perspective that generally escapes the humanly available means . If we knew the totality of the causes and implications behind each action, some causes that can sometimes go back to previous existences, perhaps we would then understand that everything that comes to materialize in the physical plane has an origin, a reason, a why and that nothing that happens to us in life is the product of arbitrariness .

So, apart from the set of synchronicities that, coming from other planes of existence, appear suddenly in our lives with the sole purpose of helping us to channel the path that can more easily lead us to the purpose for which in our day we decided to come to the world, we could conclude that both " Free Will " and " Destiny " have their due representation in this multidimensional approach to existence, although as we have seen, the former will always prevail over the latter. There is, therefore, an absolute freedom to choose to live the life we ​​want to live and do with it as much as we want; but at the same time, in no case can we avoid everything that by responsibility (causality) we need to live .

Author: Ricard Barrufet

from the book "Plans of Existence, Dimensions of Consciousness"

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